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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Oct 2, 2025
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.
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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.
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.
What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
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.
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
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.
I sing the Star Spangled Banner, so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.
I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!
NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.
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.
My uncle Max was a mountain, a shooting star, a big bear of a man, a piggyback ride waiting to happen, his pockets full of candy and, later money, or whatever the particular currency of our ages happened to be. He was rock concerts, baseball games, he was yes when my parents were no, he was a consolation for every disappointment.
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.
Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.
There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting - that does not apply to the turkey breast, which is, really, a convenience of food... A turkey without seasonal angst is like a baseball game without a national anthem, a winter without snow, a birthday party without candles.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
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.
I stare out the window and wait for spring.
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.
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.
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.
To get the adrenaline going before the game for a big league baseball game was pretty special.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.