Baseball Quotes - Page 3

You can't win them all but you can try.

If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.

I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.

Years ago, while I was watching a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers, I remember staring in awe at Cal Ripken. I realized during this game that 'you don't have to be flashy' or have 'power numbers' to be great. It's about the simple things that are the hard things. It's about leadership, work ethic and commitment.

I was born to play baseball.

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

Casey (Stengel) knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young.

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A new industry moves into an undeveloped area. Factories go up, machines go in and you're in business. It's coincidental that people who've never seen a dime now have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their faces washed. What's wrong with an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.

You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in a heap, puking on the roadside. It's the physical brutality of climbing Mount Everest without the great view from the top of the world. What kind of person keeps coming back for more of that?

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

If it weren't for Jesus, I would not be where I am today and my life would be without purpose. I've heard kids say they want to be just like me when they grow up. They should know I want to be just like Jesus.