Great Baseball Quotes

• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• 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.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Sports, Baseball, Spring

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

  Babe Ruth

  Teamwork, Business, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Spring

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

  Ted Williams

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  George Will

  Sports, Baseball, Mlb

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• I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

  Walt Whitman

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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• 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.

  Bill Veeck

  Softball, Baseball, Inspirational Sports

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Mlb, Practice

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  Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

  Babe Ruth

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  Earl Wilson

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Games

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• If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

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• 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.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Motivational, Summer, Softball

  "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977

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• The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

  Bryant Gumbel

  Softball, Sports, Baseball

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• Swing hard in case you hit it.

  Dan Marino

  Golf, Swings, Inspirational Baseball

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• 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.

  Graig Nettles

  Baseball, Boys, Player

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• Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.

  Woodie Held

  Baseball, Swings, Balls

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• I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

  Leo Durocher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

  Nice Guys Finish Last bk. 1 (1975)

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• Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Looks, Jackie

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Baseball, Dignity, Advantage

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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

  Rich Davis

  Baseball, Running, Distance

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• Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

  Bob Lemon

  Funny, Baseball, Kids

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

  Bob Uecker

  Baseball, Careers, Cards

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.45, Triumph Books

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