60+ Baseball Quotes
“When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.” – Joe DiMaggio
60+ Baseball Quotes
Baseball is one of the most popular sports in the USA. Many people in America live this sport intensely and even emotionally.
If you haven’t watched a baseball match or you haven’t played this unique sport before, it is very difficult to describe how incredible this sport can be.
Read these baseball quotes, mainly said by different baseball players, and get an idea of what kind of sport this is and how exciting it can be for those who understand the game.
1“Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!”
2“Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.”
3“No matter how good you are, you’re going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you’re going to win one-third of your games. It’s the other third that makes the difference.”
4“Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.”
5“Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.”
6“Baseball is a man maker.”
7“Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it’s about love, integrity, and respect.”
8“There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.”
9“Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.”
10“I do what I’ve trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher’s mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.”
11“You never know what's going to happen… And that's the fun of it! That's what baseball's all about!”
12“The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball, whether in the stands or on the field, is the same as that of the lover of life itself: to pay attention to it. When it comes to the position of catcher, as all but fools and shortstops will freely acknowledge, this solemn requirement is doubled.”
13“Baseball really is a glorified game of throw and catch. And if you don’t have guys who throw it really well, you can’t compete for long.”
14"If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game"
15“Baseball is more than a game to me, it’s a religion.”
16“The great thing about baseball is there’s a crisis every day.”
17“Baseball is more than a game. It’s like life played out on a field.”
18“The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.”
19“What you have to remember is that baseball isn’t a week or a month but a season – and a season is a long time.”
20"I'm not going to play because I can, I'm going to play because I deserve it"
21“Baseball is also a game of balance.”
22“A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end, it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.”
23“A man has to have goals – for a day, for a lifetime – and that was mine, to have people say, ‘There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'”
24"There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens."
25"I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious."
26"It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy."
27"Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world."
28"Baseball is an American icon. It is the Statue of Liberty, the bald eagle, "In God We Trust," Mount Rushmore, ice cream, apple pie, hot dogs, and rally monkeys. Baseball is America."
29"Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast."
30"Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball."
31"Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure."
32“Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.”
33“It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ball players. Baseball is not an obvious game.”
34“Deep down, it’s all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.”
35“There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.”
36“One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.”
37"I don't want to just be the best player. I want to be a great person, too"
38"A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that."
39“I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don’t think about it is when I’m playing it.”
40“I love to play baseball. I’m a baseball player. I’ve always been a baseball player. I’m still a baseball player. That’s who I am.”
41“Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.”
42“I see great things in baseball.”
43“I’ve always loved baseball. Ever since 6th grade, I was geared to becoming a baseball writer.”
44“Worrying about things you can’t control is a waste both on the baseball field and in life.”
45“In baseball, there’s always the next day.”
46“When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I’m doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?”
47“I’ve fallen in love with baseball.”
48"Since baseball is my favorite sport, it's easy to go out and do what I do."
49"I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump."
50“To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.”
51“You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.”
52“If I didn’t make it in baseball, I won’t have made it workin’. I didn’t like to work.”
53“In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.”
54"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
55"Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs."
56“A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn’t the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn’t going to say every day, ‘Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.”
57“Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.”
58“No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball.”
59“Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it’s a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.”
60"I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all."
61“No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.”
62“In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.”
63“I’d walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.”
64“I’m going to do my best to help the team play hard and help the team win… I’m just coming to play baseball.”
65“Baseball is like driving, it’s the one who gets home safely that counts.”
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