Baseball Quotes.

Quotes about America’s Pastime:

People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball.  I’ll tell you what I do.  I stare out the window and wait for spring.
-Rogers Hornsby

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
-Roy Campanella

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
-Paul Gallico

There are three things in my life which I really love:  God, my family, and baseball.  The only problem – once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
-Al Gallagher

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
-Bob Lemon

I see great things in baseball.  It’s our game – the American game.  It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism.  Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set.  Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.
-Walt Whitman

Baseball is a fun game.  It beats working for a living.
-Phil Linz

When they start the game, they don’t yell, “Work ball.”  They say, “Play ball.”
-Willie Stargell

With those who don’t give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize.  I do not resent them.  I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace.  But while the game is on, I can’t think of anything to say to them.
-Art Hill

Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa.
-Bob Veale

The other sports are just sports.  Baseball is a love.
-Bryant Gumbel

Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream.  But you don’t like it when someone’s stuffing it into you by the gallon.  That’s what it feels like when Nolan Ryan’s throwin’ balls by you.
-Reggie Jackson

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

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

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, on artificial turf

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

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

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

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

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times.  I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times.  You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season.  That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
-Mickey Mantle

Sandy (Koufax)’s fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound.
-Jim Murray

The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.
-Lawrence Ritter

This is a game to be savored, not gulped.  There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
-Bill Veeck

Baseball fans love numbers.  They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
-Pat Conroy

One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.  This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.
-Robert Benchley

It is well to remember that a Martian observing his first baseball game would be quite correct in concluding that the last two words of the National Anthem are:  PLAY BALL!
-Herbert H. Paper

I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
-Bill Veeck

A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance.  The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide – these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man’s last name or the pigmentation of his skin.
-Branch Rickey

Don’t forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.
-Woodie Held

You know it’s summertime at Candlestick when the fog rolls in, the wind kicks up, and you see the center fielder slicing open a caribou to survive the ninth inning.
-Bob Sarlette

Don’t tell me about the world.  Not today.  It’s springtime and they’re knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.
-Pete Hamill

It ain’t nothin’ till I call it.
-Bill Klem, umpire

The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game.  The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.
-Chuck Tanner

Baseball is a ballet without music.  Drama without words.
-Ernie Harwell

Well, boys, it’s a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.
-Joe Schultz

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball.  Unfortunately, neither of them work.
-Charlie Lau

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.
-Greg, age 8

The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up.
-Bob Uecker

Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini.  They show a lot, but not everything.
-Toby Harrah

If Cool Papa Bell had known about colleges or if colleges had known about Cool Papa, Jesse Owens would have looked like he was walking.
-Satchel Paige

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play.  Like baseball, for example.
-Robert Benchley

Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic.
-Robert S. Wieder

You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
-Jim Bouton