Best Baseball Games Quotes

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.

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

So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

It’s a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you’re surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

You saw him standing out there, and you knew you had a pretty damn good chance to win the baseball game.

Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

To get the adrenaline going before the game for a big league baseball game was pretty special.

The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.

Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

I don’t want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

If my uniform doesn’t get dirty, I haven’t done anything in the baseball game.

I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.

Turning seventy is like beginning the eighth inning of a baseball game. The contest is nearing completion, but there’s likely to be some action, and even a few exciting plays, before the game draws to an end.

If I couldn’t broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don’t go together. You can’t be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You’ve got to let go of the diet that day.

We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.

I sing the Star Spangled Banner, so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.

Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually takes place in the stands.

Even talking about serious issues – it’s hard to fit in anything around calling a baseball game.

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

Last year, more Americans went to symphonies than went to baseball games. This may be viewed as an alarming statistic, but I think that both baseball and the country will endure.

I listen to NPR and baseball games when I’m in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that’s it, as far as the radio.

I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

Are there rules about betting on baseball games? Yeah–you have to stay away from the Padres.

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

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

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.