Great Baseball Quotes - Page 2

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

  Bob Uecker

  Baseball, Careers, Cards

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.45, Triumph Books

  74 Copy quote

  Show source

• Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.

  Ryan Cabrera

  Sports, Baseball, Men

  7 Copy quote

• Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Looks, Jackie

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.

  Woodie Held

  Baseball, Swings, Balls

  51 Copy quote

• Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

  Lou Gehrig

  Baseball, Reading, Past

  Farewell to Baseball Address, delivered 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."

  Ted Williams

  Volleyball, Want, Life Is

  15 Copy quote

• Swing hard in case you hit it.

  Dan Marino

  Golf, Swings, Inspirational Baseball

  21 Copy quote

• I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

  Lou Gehrig

  Movie, Baseball, Men

  Farewell speech at Yankee Stadium, New York, N.Y., 4 July 1939.

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Happiness, Baseball

  Yogi: It Ain't Over (1989)

  63 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Babe Ruth

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  138 Copy quote

  Show source

• You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Death, Hilarious

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  130 Copy quote

  Show source

• It gets late early out there.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Work

  Quoted in Sporting News, 7 Aug. 1971. Berra says in The Yogi Book (1998) that he was referring here to the difficulty of playing left field in Yankee Stadium in late autumn when "the shadows would creep up on you and you had a tough time seeing the ball off the bat."

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

  Roy Campanella

  Baseball, Boys, Men

  Quoted in New York Journal-American, 12 Apr. 1957

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Sports

  34 Copy quote
• 

  Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Games

  Babe Ruth, Bob Considine (1948). “The Babe Ruth story as told to Bob Considine: with 49 photos”

  123 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Swings, Hitting Home Runs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  84 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

  25 Copy quote

• I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Mlb

  Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.69, Rodale

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

  Jackie Robinson

  Motivational, Change, Baseball

  "The Impact and Legacy Years, 1941, 1947, 1968". p. 100. Book by Fred Pulis, 2000.

  269 Copy quote

  Show source

• Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Yankees, Bills

  7 Copy quote

• The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again.

  James Earl Jones

  Motivational, Baseball, Army

  46 Copy quote

• I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms, and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance.

  Ron Shelton

  Baseball, Jesus, Believe

  "Fictional character: Annie Savoy". "Bull Durham", 1988.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Motivational, Baseball

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

  Bill Veeck

  Softball, Baseball, Mlb

  8 Copy quote

• I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Motivational Sports

  8 Copy quote