Baseball Quotes: Wisdom and Wit from the World of Baseball

"These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game"

Mark Russell, Writer

"When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things"

Robert Frost, Poet

"That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"Defense to me is the key to playing baseball"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"But I'll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest her soul. I had a good foundation at home, so when I was able to go off and do these things in baseball there was always support"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it is fantastic. I have to say this about them, there are so many of these guys up here that were my role models, people I looked up to, people I wanted to be like"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"No, I've never played baseball in my life"

Jay Hernandez, Actor

"Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion"

Ernie Harwell, Celebrity

"Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job"

Ernie Harwell, Celebrity

"When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game"

Joe DiMaggio, Athlete

"Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion"

Bill Klem, Athlete

"It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations"

Vida Blue, Athlete

"I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while"

Vida Blue, Athlete

"For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings"

Earl Wilson, Athlete

"A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings"

Earl Wilson, Athlete

"If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor"

Ernie Harwell, Celebrity

"A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball"

Ernie Harwell, Celebrity

"Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life"

Ernie Harwell, Celebrity

"I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff"

Balthazar Getty, Actor

"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"I wanted to be a professional baseball player"

Balthazar Getty, Actor

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