Great Baseball Quotes

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

I didn't really say everything I said.

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

Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

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

We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.

My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

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

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

Swing hard in case you hit it.

I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.

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.

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

It gets late early out there.

The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.

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.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

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.

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.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

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.

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?

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

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.

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.

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

I never said most of the things I said.

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.

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

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

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

When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both.

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