Baseball Quotes

For years I asked God to do something about my noisy neighbor with the barking dog, Joe Pesci straightened that cocksucker out with one visit. It's amazing what you can accomplish with a simple baseball bat. (George Carlin)
Terrible. It took me 17 years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. View quote
Hank Aaron
If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes. View quote
Mickey Spillane
Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand. View quote
Leo Durocher
Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
Baseball is a game of inches. View quote
Branch Rickey
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. View quote
Babe Ruth
Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth. View quote
Bud Selig
Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people. View quote
Bud Selig
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets. (Yogi Berra)
People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball. View quote
Sandy Koufax
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams. View quote
Jacques Barzun
It baseball will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us. View quote
Walt Whitman
Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team. View quote
Phil Knight
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like. View quote
Phyllis Diller
The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know. View quote
Mickey Mantle
Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders. View quote
Martina Hingis
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line. View quote
Bo Jackson
I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball. View quote
Barry Bonds
Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. (Frank Robinson)
You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time. View quote
Jim Bouton
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? View quote
Jim Bouton
One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something. View quote
Nolan Ryan
I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity. View quote
Nolan Ryan