Quotes on Baseball

Special Quotes on Baseball

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Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? – Jim Bouton

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out. – Joe Garagiola

I don’t care how long you’ve been around, you’ll never see it all. – Bob Lemon
It’s hard to win a pennant, but it’s harder losing one. – Chuck Tanner

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. – Robert Frost

Say this much for big league baseball — it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. – Bruce Catton


The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash. – Jim Murray

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. – A. Bartlett Giamatti
Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring. – Jerry Izenberg

The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain’s free throws. – Rick Wise

If a horse can’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it. – Dick Allen
A ball player’s got to be kept hungry to become a big-leaguer. That’s why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues. – Joe DiMaggio
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off. – Bill Veeck

Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them how to say: “God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth has upped Daddy’s paycheck by fifteen to forty percent.” – Waite Hoyt

Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster. – Attributed to both Joe Adcock and Curt Simmons

Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated. – Author Unknown

Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court judge, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha. – “The Villains in Blue”

I’ve come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen. – Bob Lemon

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. – Tommy Lasorda

You don’t save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain. – Leo Durocher

You can’t sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You’ve got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That’s why baseball is the greatest game of them all. – Earl Weaver