If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.
It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.
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 are men on base.
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.
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.
When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
I stare out the window and wait for spring.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.
Feeling is to lose a major league game.
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