Baseball Quotes
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Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.
Philip Roth -
If you're not having fun in baseball, you miss the point of everything.
Chris Chambliss
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
Jackie Robinson -
Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not... I think my baseball judgment was really good.
Earl Weaver -
Once I got into the music, I realized that I had a passion for it that far outweighed what it was for baseball.
Chris Lane -
I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.
Adam Yauch The Beastie Boys -
Just down the road stood a little town, which I shall call Dullard lest the people recognize themselves and take me to court or come to my house and batter me with baseball bats.
Bill Bryson
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The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.
Ichiro Suzuki -
I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
Harmony Korine -
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Jackie Robinson -
People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
Sandy Koufax -
You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
Earl Weaver -
The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
W. P. Kinsella
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I help with everything. My wife and I are a team. I pack my son's lunches, and she takes him to baseball practice when I gotta go train. It's hand-in-hand. There are no labels on our chores.
Bill Goldberg -
I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.
Ralph Kiner -
It's not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn't sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?
Jocko Willink -
What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.
Chuck Tanner -
When I think about athletes, probably my favorite guest of all time among baseball players was Ted Williams.
Charlie Rose -
Thrilling, thrilling to see yourself on a baseball card for the first time.
Freddie Freeman
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
Garth Brooks -
Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
Laraine Day -
I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.
Buddy Guy -
On my wall, along with my favorite football players and baseball players, I had Marlon Brando and Sir Laurence Olivier. These were childhood idols.
Dennis Haysbert