Greatest Baseball Quotes

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

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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  Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

  Ted Williams

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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

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• If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

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• It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Football

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• 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.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• [Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Heart, Green Fields

  "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977

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• How can you think and hit at the same time?

  Yogi Berra

  Sports, Baseball, Yoga

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• I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Change, Baseball

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Spring

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

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• The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

  Hank Aaron

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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• I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

  Babe Ruth

  Mean, Umpires, Dirt

  "The Babe Ruth Story". Book by Babe Ruth and Bob Considine, 1948.

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• Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Sports, Lying

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• 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

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• What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

  Leo Durocher

  Baseball, Mother, Sorry

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• I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.

  Bob Lemon

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Mlb

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• Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Games, Giving

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• 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

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• I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

  Kevin Costner

  Believe, Kissing, Long

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• There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

  Honus Wagner

  Baseball, Famous Baseball, Ifs

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

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• Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical.

  Rich Davis

  Baseball, Running, Distance

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• I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

  Kevin Costner

  Sweet, Morning, Believe

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• 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

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• It's like deja-vu, all over again.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Yankees

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• 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.

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