- A ball player has got to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That is why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.~ Joe Dimaggio
- A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate, who can see better than an umpire standing five feet away.~ Baseballs Quotes
- A great catch is like watching girls go by, the last one you see is always the prettiest.~ Bob Gibson
- All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, ‘See, there’s a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.’~ Mickey Lolich
- A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.~ Max De Pree
- Baseball is a game of inches.~ Branch Rickey
- Baseball is almost the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.~ Mark Beltaire
- Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It’s an unfair game.~ Rod Kanehl
- Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.~ Leo Durocher
- Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half if physical.~ Yogi Berra
- Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field?~ Jim Boulton
- Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.~ Robert Smith
- Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it is a business.~ Tommy Henrich
- Close don’t count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.~ Frank Robinson
- Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.~ Ray Knight
- Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.~ Babe Ruth
- Fans don’t boo nobodies.~ Reggie Jackson
- Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.~ Leo Durocher
- Hit em where they ain’t.~ Willie Keeler
- If it weren’t for baseball, many kids wouldn’t know what a millionaire looked like.~ Phyllis Diller
- I know a baseball star who wouldn’t report the theft of his wife’s credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.~ Joe Garagiola
- In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.~ Baseballs Quotes
- I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.~ Gerald Early
- It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.~ Hank Aaron
- See the ball; hit the ball.~ Pete Rose
- Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.~ Lou Brock
- Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.~ Casey Stengel
- My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.~ Hank Aaron
- Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.~ Robert Frost
- There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.~ Leo Durocher
- The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that’s it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.~ Ty Cobb
- The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.~ Glenn Dickey
- The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.~ Casey Stengel
- Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ‘em.~ Casey Stengel
- Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game.~ Jacques Barzun
- You don’t save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow, it may rain.~ Leo Durocher
- You can’t think and hit the ball at the same time.~ Yogi Berra
- 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
- You teach me baseball and I’ll teach you relativity. . . . No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.~ Charles M. Dickinson
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