Greatest Baseball Quotes

Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical.

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

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

Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.

It's like deja-vu, all over again.

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

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

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

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?

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

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.

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

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