American Baseball Quotes

I try to walk around with a smile on my face.

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here.

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it. But if you do, do it right.

May the sun never set on American baseball.

I never said most of the things I said.

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

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

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.

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

The future ain't what it used to be.

I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

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

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.

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.

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

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

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

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

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

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

A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

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

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

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

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

If you don't know where you're going any road will do