Baseball Quotes: Wisdom and Wit from the World of Baseball (Page 2)

"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

"In baseball, you don't know nothing"

Yogi Berra, Athlete

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

Yogi Berra, Athlete

"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

"I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet"

Claudio Reyna, Athlete

"I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it"

Gerry Cooney, 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

"For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning"

Eddie Murray, Athlete

"The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball"

George Herman, Journalist

"The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%"

Jim Evans, Athlete

"There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family"

Jimmy Fallon, Comedian

"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

"I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball"

Eddie Murray, Athlete

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

Bill Klem, Athlete

"Baseball is a team game"

Eddie Murray, Athlete

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

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing"

Muddy Waters, Musician

"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

"I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!"

Bea Arthur, Actress

"As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

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

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate"

Susan Sarandon, Actress

"You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime"

George Herman, Journalist

"I don't know anything about baseball"

Sean Connery, Actor

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

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball"

Jim Evans, Athlete

"As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up"

Jim Evans, 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 wanted to be a professional baseball player"

Balthazar Getty, Actor

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