Best Baseball Quotes

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

  Earl Wilson

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, 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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• 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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• [Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Heart, Green Fields

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

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• There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Winter, Mlb

  48 Copy quote

• 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

  103 Copy quote

• 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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• NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Sports

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

  Tommy Lasorda

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

  60 Copy quote

• Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.

  Tommy Henrich

  Baseball, Knowing, Balls

  45 Copy quote

• Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

  Robert J. LeRoy

  Motivational, Baseball, Men

  8 Copy quote

• Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Games, Gentility

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

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• When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

  Ty Cobb

  Baseball, Games, Bases

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

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

  Kevin Costner

  Believe, Kissing, Long

  88 Copy quote

• Baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.

  Terrence Mann

  Baseball, Past, Games

  10 Copy quote

• Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Kids, Littles

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

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• Palming separates the men from the boys!

  Ed Marlo

  Boys, Men, Gym Class

  9 Copy quote

• How can you not be romantic about baseball?

  Billy Beane

  Baseball

  46 Copy quote

• What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

  Harry Caray

  Baseball, Mama, Bears

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• I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

  Susan Sarandon

  Motivational, Baseball, Soul

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• 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.

  Kevin Costner

  Sweet, Morning, Believe

  16 Copy quote

• If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Baseball, Cemetery

  "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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• One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

  Jim Abbott

  Beautiful, Baseball, Pitching

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• 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.

  James Earl Jones

  Motivational, Baseball, Army

  45 Copy quote