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
Life is like a baseball game. When you think a fastball is coming, you gotta be ready to hit the curve. --Jaja Q
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life. --Pete Rose
If a man can beat you, walk him. --Leroy (Satchel) Paige
There's one word that describes baseball -- 'You never know.' --Joquin Andujar
Baseball is dull only to dull minds. -- Red Barber, announcer
Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games--if you count exhibitions -- and I'm overpaid! --Johnny Bench
Baseball is religion without the mischief. -- Thomas Boswell
This is the type of thing that as a kid you dream about. Something I've done in my backyard a hundred times. And you never know if you're going to get the opportunity to do it. --Scott Brosius (NY Yankees 3B) on hitting the game winning home run in Game 3 of the 1998 World Series.
Slump ? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hittin. --Yogi Berra
Jackie was the greatest competitor I ever saw. He didn't win. He triumphed. --Ralph Branca, Dodger pitcher, 1947
We didn't lose. We just didn't play good enough to win. --Nomar Garciaparra
Baseball is the only sport I know when you're on the offensive the other team controls the ball. --Ken Harrelson
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
When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball. --Pete Rose
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing. --Warren Spahn
A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage. --Pete Rose
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. --Nolan Ryan
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. --Jim Bouton
I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone. --Wade Boggs, on being ejected for the first time in the 17th year of his career for arguing a called third strike
Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. --Joe Adcock
I had just turned 20, and Jackie told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week. --Hank Aaron on Jackie Robinson
Little League is great because it keeps parents off the streets. --Yogi Berra
It's deja vu all over again. --Yogi Berra
No wonder nobody comes here; it's too crowded. --Yogi Berra
We have very deep depth! --Yogi Berra
We made too many wrong mistakes. --Yogi Berra
You can observe a lot by just watching. --Yogi Berra