Baseball Quotes - Page 5

Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.

The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

God, I just love baseball.

Everyone has an enemy. It's why God gave us baseball bats. Well, He gave us trees, but we knew what He meant.

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.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

I keep my eys clear and I hit 'em where they ain't.

God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.

See the ball; hit the ball.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

I walk into the clubhouse today and it's like walking into the Mayo Clinic. We have four doctors, three therapists and five trainers. Back when I broke in, we had one trainer who carried a bottle of rubbing alcohol, and by the 7th inning he'd already drunk it.

Don't eat fried food, it angries up the blood.

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass.

The game of baseball is made up of many little things. If we do all the little things right, then we'll never have a big thing to worry about

I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.