Baseball Quotes - Page 8

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

Baseball is a game of life. It's not perfect, but it feels like it is.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

It actually giggles at you as it goes by.

Stay away from drugs and alcohol. Listen to your moms and dads. In this great country of ours you do whatever you set your mind to. Make us proud of you.

There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.

Honestly, at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean, I wasn't born until 1961, and I grew up in Indiana.

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

I have an Alka-Seltzer bat. You know-plop, plop, fizz, fizz, when the pitcher sees me walking up there he says, 'Oh, what a relief it is'.

If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.

The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

People say I don't have great tools. They say that I can't throw like Ellis Valentine or run like Tim Raines or hit with power like Mike Schmidt. Who can? I make up for it in other ways, by putting out a little bit more. That's my theory, to go through life hustling. In the big leagues, hustle usually means being in the right place at the right time. It means backing up a base. It means backing up your teammate. It means taking that headfirst slide. It means doing everything you can do to win a baseball game.

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.