Baseball Quotes: Wisdom and Wit from the World of Baseball

"It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course"

Hank Aaron, Athlete

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

H. L. Mencken, Writer

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

Earl Wilson, Athlete

"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball"

Pete Rose, Athlete

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

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"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

"Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie"

Harry Reasoner, Journalist

"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

"Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal"

Pete Rose, Athlete

"The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it"

Jackie Robinson, Athlete

"Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game"

Branch Rickey, Athlete

"The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers"

Earl Weaver, Coach

"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

"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

"One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?"

James Caan, Actor

"In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that"

Alvin Dark, Athlete

"Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand"

Leo Durocher, Athlete

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

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it"

Whitey Herzog, Athlete

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

Robert Frost, Poet

"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'"

Robin Williams, Comedian

"Cricket is basically baseball on valium"

Robin Williams, Comedian

"Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"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

"It was all I lived for, to play baseball"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

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

Walt Whitman, Poet

"If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery"

Babe Ruth, Athlete

"Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world"

Babe Ruth, Athlete

"Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder"

Babe Ruth, Athlete

"The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them"

Hank Aaron, Athlete

"In baseball, you don't know nothing"

Yogi Berra, Athlete

"Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical"

Yogi Berra, Athlete

"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

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