Motivational Baseball Quotes

When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

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 has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

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.

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.

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.

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?

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

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?

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

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.

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

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.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

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