Baseball

Favorite Quotes About Baseball

"Every day is a new opportunity.  You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again.  That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is." -Bob Feller

"My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid.  When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in this country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time." -Bob Feller

"There are three types of baseball players:  Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened." -Tommy Lasorda

"Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back." -Babe Ruth

"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer." -Ted Williams

"For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature.  They both are re-tellings of the human experience." -A. Bartlett Giamati


"In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance.  That's why this is the greatest game." -Earl Weaver

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.  You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." -Babe Ruth

"Anytime you think you have the game of baseball conquered the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose." -Mike Schmidt


"Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona." -George Will


"Baseball is more than a game.  It's like life played out on a field." -Juliana Hatfield