Best Motivational 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.

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

When I played ball, I didn’t play for fun.

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.

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.

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

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 pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he’s timid.

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.

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – and I believe that.

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

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won’t be knocked down a second time.

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 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.

Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.

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

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

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.

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

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.