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Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
Sep 24, 2025
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's hand. Pick it up and it instantly suggests its purpose; it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance - thrown hard and with precision.
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.
Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.
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.
What's tough is being good every day.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
Swing hard in case you hit it.
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
How can you think and hit at the same time?
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.
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.
Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
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.
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.
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.
Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
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.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
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.
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.
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.