Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
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.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
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.
Why do people sing Take Me Out to The Ballgame when they're already there?
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.
I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Swing hard in case you hit it.
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.
I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.
Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.
A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Family is the most important thing in the world.
We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.
It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one.
My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.
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