Baseball And Life Quotes

I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.

I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.

When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one.

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

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

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

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

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

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.

Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.

I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!

You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

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.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

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] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

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.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

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

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

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 players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

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

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.

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

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

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.

Family is the most important thing in the world.