Best Great 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

Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.

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

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

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

If the world was perfect, it wouldn’t be.

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.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I’ve got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

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.

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.

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

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

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.

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

It’s a great day for a ball game; let’s play two!

It’s hard to win a pennant, but it’s harder losing one.

And because I have a four-year-old son I have become a great baseball pitcher. And, you know, juggler.

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

I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

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

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

I don’t care how long you’ve been around, you’ll never see it all.

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don’t think about it is when I’m playing it.

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

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

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

We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem – once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.

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.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.