BASEBALL QUOTES

quotations about baseball

Baseball quote

Major League Baseball announced today that Alex Rodriguez has been suspended for 211 games. So if you're familiar with baseball's schedule, it means he'll be out for about a month. I think there are 10,000 games in a season.

CONAN O'BRIEN

Conan, Aug. 5, 2013


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

Throwing Heat: The Autobiography of Nolan Ryan


You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

JOE DIMAGGIO

attributed, Play Ball!: Quotes on America's Favorite Pastime


Baseball is like church. Many attend, but few understand.

WES WESTRUM

attributed, Baseball Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Baseball


Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.

MARY MCGRORY

attributed, Return of the Portable Curmudgeon


There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.

TOMMY LASORDA

attributed, Sportswit


I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.

JOE DIMAGGIO

attributed, Yogi: The Autobiography of a Professional Baseball Player


I ain't afraid to tell the world that it don't take school stuff to help a fella play ball.

SHOELESS JOE JACKSON

attributed, Shadows of Summer


Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove that you haven't got what it takes. It never takes away the chance, and it never eases up on the pressure.

JOE GARAGIOLA

Baseball Is a Funny Game


The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

HANK AARON

Milwaukee Journal, July 31, 1956


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

PETE ROSE

attributed, Baseball: An Illustrated History


It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.

NOLAN RYAN

attributed, The Little Red Book of Baseball Wisdom


The New York Mets are planning to move the walls of Citi Field in order to increase the number of homeruns they hit. Call me old fashioned but isn't that what steroids are for?

CONAN O'BRIEN

Conan, Nov. 2, 2011


Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design--the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life.

A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI

attributed, The Faith of 50 Million


The game's isn't over until it's over.

YOGI BERRA

attributed, Baseball's Greatest Quotations


There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

CASEY STENGEL

attributed, Uncle John's Third Bathroom Reader


I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

HANK AARON

Milwaukee Journal, July 31, 1956


Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

TOMMY LASORDA

attributed, The Gigantic Book of Baseball Quotations


Baseball is not life and death. But in life and death, we remember the game, and we remember those who shared the game with us.

JEFF ZILLGITT

Chicken Soup for the Baseball Fan's Soul


Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.

HANK AARON

Mademoiselle, 1978