Best Famous Baseball 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.

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

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

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game’s greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.

What they were doing was extremely wrong as far as I was concerned, and to this day, I don’t know what I was thinking except bowl them over.

I am the best in baseball.

It actually giggles at you as it goes by.

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.

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

I never said most of the things I said.

Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.

The future ain’t what it used to be.

I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

A man has to have goals – for a day, for a lifetime.

Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

I ain’t ever had a job, I just always played baseball.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

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

The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain’s free throws.

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.

A good lead-off hitter is a pain in the ass to pitchers.

Never let your dreams go away.

All I have is natural ability.

Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.