Best Baseball Quotes

The rest of what I learned about baseball came from Peter Gammons, the Boston Globe`s best baseball writer when I was in high school.

Peter Gammons went on to Sports Illustrated and ESPN, and was on everyone`s shortlist of best baseball writers ever.

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

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.

There is but one game and that game is baseball.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

My goal on Earth is not to win a World Series or be the best baseball player who ever lived. That simply is not up to me because I have to wait and see if it is part of the Lord's plan. My goal is to follow the Lord and what he wants me to do so that someday I may enter His kingdom and receive everlasting life.

I'm trying to be the best baseball player I can, to learn from what I see and get better every day.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

Baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Palming separates the men from the boys!

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.

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, "Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability."

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

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

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.

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.

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.

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.