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Baseball Quotes
America's favorite national pastime...baseball. Enjoy my compilation of the best
baseball quotes. There's a ton of classics here!
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Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the
fall, when everything is dying. -- George Carlin
I feel terrible about what they do to the umpires. The first time they go out
on the field the band strikes up "Oh, say, can you see." -- Godman Ace
Bat Day seems like a good idea, but I question the advisability of giving bats
in the Bronx to 40,000 Yankee fans. -- Aaron bacall
Ralph Hunker's daddy made the first baseball glove in his tory. Made it out
of genuine cowhide. Of course, he cheated a little. He made it out of the part
of the cow that already had the fingers in it. -- Patty Buttram
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
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
I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than
myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him. -- Hank Aaron
I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it
makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. --
Hank Aaron
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it
in one afternoon on the golf course. -- Hank Aaron
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
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 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
Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything.
-- Toby Harrah
Baseball has been called the National Pastime. It's just the kind of game anyone
deserves who has nothing better to do than try to pass his time. -- Andrew Rooney
After fifteen years of facing pitchers you don't really get over them. They're
devious. They're the only players in the game allowed to cheat. They throw illegal
pitches and they sneak foreign substances on the ball. They can inflict pain whenever
they wish. And, they're the only ones on the diamond who have high ground. That's
symbolic. You know what they tell you in a war - 'take the high ground first.'
-- Richie Ashburn
I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But
what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their
minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since
then. -- Richie Ashburn
I watch a lot of baseball on the radio. - Gerald Ford
It was too bad I wasn't a second baseman; then I'd probably have seen a lot
more of my husband. - Karolyn Rose, ex-wife of Pete Rose
Being with a woman never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up
all night looking for a woman that does him in. -- Casey Stengel
Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.
-- Dick Gregory
Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot
on first.
-- Frederick B. Wilcox
Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic.
-- Robert S. Wieder
Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.
-- Philip Wrigley
To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.
-- Steve Hovley
There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.
-- Tallulah Bankhead
Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
-- Bruce Catton
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
-- Earl Wilson
If the people don't want to come out to the park, nobody's gonna stop them.
-- Yogi Berra
It ain't over till it's over. -- Yogi Berra
It's deja vu all over again. -- Yogi Berra
Because it gets late early., on why it's so tough to play left field in Yankee
stadium. -- Yogi Berra
No wonder nobody comes here; it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra
You can observe a lot by just watching. -- Yogi Berra
The future ain't what it used to be. -- Yogi Berra
When you come to a fork in the road, take it. -- Yogi Berra
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it
was the other way around all the time.
-- Jim Bouton
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours. -- Yogi
Berra
Baseball is the only sport I know when you're on the offensive the other team
controls the ball -- Ken Harrelson
Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions,
offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the
situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game. -- Edward
Abbey
Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical. -- Yogi Beara
We made too many wrong mistakes. -- Yogi Berra
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole
in Arizona.
-- George F. Will
Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.
-- Woodie Held
A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz.
-- Humphrey Bogart
This baseball quote collection is © by Humorsphere.
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