Baseball is compared to life by its numerous fans. It is a game that teaches teamwork, motivation, harmony and sportsmanship to the people associated with the game. The game has become the timeless cultural icon in many countries, especially in the U.S! Baseball has enhanced the concept of team building for many years till now.
A game that has no specific demands from an athlete’s physical condition is known as the mélange of fun and learning and motivates you to keep hitting, throwing and running no matter at what stage of life you’re in!
According to players, baseball has the power to make you feel like a kid again! Even in our quotes, which are the original statements of some popular baseball players and coaches, you will see how they have developed passion and love for the most unbiased game of the planet.
A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.
Yogi Berra
If you don’t know where you’re going any road will do.
Lewis Carroll
It’s hard to get lost if you don’t know where you’re going.
Jim Jarmusch
If you don t know where you are, a map won’t help.
Watts Humphrey
Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.
Mary McGrory
We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.
John F. Kennedy
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth
What’s cool about baseball is you don’t have to see someone for years, but when you see them, you just hustle up and give them a big hug. Those friendships endure.
Jim Abbott
You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass.
Leon Brown
My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.
Andrew Young
My workout was playing other sports and I always played tennis, football, basketball, threw a baseball – I was always doing something to keep me active. That’s how I kept my body going.
Jack Nicklaus
Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
Babe Ruth
Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.
Casey Stengel
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
I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don’t go to games.
Bo Jackson
Whenever I wasn’t watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
Bo Jackson
The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
Yogi Berra
Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
Bo Jackson
Find something good within your life and give every ounce of positivity you have towards it, then watch how your life changes.
Leon Brown
I didn’t know if I still had it in me to be really dangerous, but I thought so. It’s like knocking someone off a bike with a baseball bat; you never really lose the knack.
Simon R. Green
I’m just a big boy, I’m still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid.
Bryan Cranston
I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.
Babe Ruth
Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.
Phil Jackson
And of course in America you’ve got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.
Parminder Nagra
As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.
Jim Evans
I always took my workouts serious because I have a football background. I came from football, so when I got to baseball, I continued my football workouts in the offseason.
Frank Thomas
David Remnick [the New Yorker’s editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do with baseball. It drives me nuts.
Kevin Sessums
Ninety percent of this game is half mental.
Yogi Berra
Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.
Donald Hall
If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
Samuel Beckett
The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.
Herbert Hoover
It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions.
Art Rust, Jr.
Winning isn’t as important as doing well individually. You can’t take teamwork up to the front office to negotiate.
Ken Landreaux
Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.
Michael Wilbon
Famous Baseball Quotes
Baseball is one of the historical games that are encouraged to be played in a sporting team. As any other game, the efforts of one player become useless if other players are not supporting and putting an equal amount of energy into it. Isn’t it similar to the life cycle as we cannot live a fulfilling, happy life without the involvement and relationships of others.
That is the reason for which Baseball is preached as one of the exciting games that grasp the deepest meaning of life within its rules and principals. In this column, one is going to read quotes from the individuals who are meant to live and breathe Baseball in their lives.
These Inspiring Baseball Quotes and Sayings will let you know how amazingly the game is uplifted by the players who have dedicated their life to Baseball.
Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it’s about love, integrity, and respect.
Pat Gillick
It ain’t nothin’ till I call it.
Bill Klem
There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
Casey Stengel
There have been only two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.
Tallulah Bankhead
This is a great thing that’s happening in baseball. We don’t know if it will ever happen again.
Mark McGwire
I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t never been seen by this generation.
Satchel Paige
Baseball is more than a game. It’s like life played out on a field.
Juliana Hatfield
Ninety percent of this game is half mental.
Yogi Berra
I didn’t understand anything about playing baseball. I started playing, and it was enjoyable. Most of my life, I played with older people on my team, in my league. I learned a lot about life. Everyday in my life, I learned something new from somebody.
Ernie Banks
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there is a man on base.
Dave Barry
Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.
Bob Feller
Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?
George Bernard Shaw
What you have to remember is that baseball isn’t a week or a month but a season—and a season is a long time.
Chuck Tanner
The way to make coaches think you’re in shape in the spring is to get a tan.
Whitey Ford
Baseball is a lot like life. It’s 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
Running a ball club is like raising kids who fall out of trees.
Tom Trebelhorn
Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.
Paul Auster
I watch a lot of baseball on radio.
Gerald Ford
In baseball, there’s always the next day.
Ryne Sandberg
I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
Babe Ruth
To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.
Willie Stargell
If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off.
Bill Veeck
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
Yogi Berra
Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn’t score any runs.
Tim McCarver
You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
Cal Ripken Jr.
Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
Joe Adcock
Baseball is a man maker.
Al Spalding
The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
Yogi Berra
The great thing about baseball is there’s a crisis every day.
Gabe Paul
Beethoven can’t really be great because his picture isn’t on a bubble gum card.
Charles Schulz
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
I think I throw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just doesn’t get there as fast.
Eddie Bane
Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you’ve got both, you can play baseball.
Pete Rose
Third ain’t so bad if nothin’ is hit to you.
Yogi Berra
If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.
Sammy Sosa
There’s no crying in baseball!
Tom Hanks
You can’t be afraid to make errors! You can’t be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.
Lou Brock
I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar.
Bob Lemon
Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
Ted Williams
Well, it took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits in baseball, and I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron
I’m going to do my best to help the team play hard and help the team win… I’m just coming to play baseball.
Asdrubal Cabrera
After Jackie Robinson, the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson.
Reggie Jackson
Baseball is like driving, it’s the one who gets home safely that counts.
Tommy Lasorda
We know we’re better than this, but we can’t prove it.
Tony Gwynn
I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
Earl Weaver
It ain’t like football. You can’t make up no trick plays.
Yogi Berra
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra
If a horse won’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it.
Dick Allen
There are only five things you can do in baseball—run, throw, catch, hit, and hit with power.
Leo Durocher
You don’t realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.
Mickey Mantle
Baseball Inspiring Quotes
If you have ever come across a die-heart Baseball fan, you will know how much intensity and emotions a game can hold in someone’s life. Indeed there might be a situation when you have to realize that Baseball has some unmatched principals which make it unique from other games. It is one of those exclusive games played across many countries that ask nothing but love from its players.
Yes! When we say nothing, it means any player of the game doesn’t need to fulfill any physical proportion and fitness level or have to be tall and have a specified bodyweight to play the game. There will always be a place for talent in a Baseball game. Today we are here to celebrate the beauty of this unique game with the collection of ‘Popular Baseball Quotes’ from players, coaches and fans which will make you fall in love with it!
Baseball is more than a game to me, it’s a religion.
Bill Klem
Alan Sutton Sothoron pitched his initials off today.
Anonymous
Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.
Pete Rose
All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a doubleheader.
George F. Will
I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don’t think about it is when I’m playing it.
Carl Yastrzemski
Never root for a team whose uniforms have elastic stretch waistbands.
Susan Sarandon
Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.
Leo Durocher
There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer.
Honus Wagner
Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.
Cal Ripken Jr.
Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.
Charlie Gehringer
There’s nothing to it. Baseball isn’t that tough to play.
Red Schoendienst
The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.
Curt Flood
You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.
Roy Campanella
Sure I played, did you think I was born age 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
Casey Stengel
In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.
Alvin Dark
When you start the game, they don’t say “Work ball!” They say “Play ball!”
Willie Stargell
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
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither one of them works.
Charlie Lau
In baseball, you don’t know nothing.
Yogi Berra
The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then to pick it up.
Bob Uecker
I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.
Dave Winfield
Think! How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?
Yogi Berra
Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.
Jim Jarmusch
The majority of American males put themselves to sleep by striking out the batting order of the New York Yankees.
James Thurber
Baseball hasn’t forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven’t lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.
Bob Uecker
A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.
Humphrey Bogart
I owe baseball. Baseball don’t owe me a damn thing.
Pete Rose
He’s the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he’ll kill you another.
Sandy Koufax
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
As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit — and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
Bill Vaughan
Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.
Curt Schilling
Slump? I ain’t in no slump. I just ain’t hitting.
Yogi Berra
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
Earl Weaver
A man once told me to walk with the Lord. I’d rather walk with the bases loaded.
Ken Singleton
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
Lou Gehrig
I’d be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.
Pete Rose
Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.
Sparky Anderson
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Yogi Berra
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
Casey Stengel
Lasorda’s standard reply when some new kid would ask directions to the whirlpool was to tell him to stick his foot in the toilet and flush it.
Steve Garvey
My feeling is that when you’re managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot.
Robin Roberts
If you don’t succeed at first, try pitching.
Jack Harshman
Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it’s a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.
Chad Harbach
The Hall of Fame is for baseball people. Heaven is for good people.
Jim Dwyer
Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.
Pete Rose
So I’m ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
Yogi Berra
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants to quit when you’re ahead.
Jackie Robinson
He looks like a greyhound, but he runs like a bus.
George Brett
In baseball, you can’t kill the clock. You’ve got to give the other man his chance. That’s why this is the greatest game.
Earl Weaver
The baseball mania has run its course. It has no future as a professional endeavor.
Cincinnati Gazette
Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.
Joe Torre
We hope that our hand-picked collection of some famous baseball quotes will inspire you to have respect for the iconic game.