Baseball Quotes

• Babe Ruth didn't become her father until 18 months after he married her mother, Claire, on April 17, 1929, Opening Day of the baseball season. Julia was 12 years old.

  

  Jane Leavy
  • Mother
  • Father
  • April

• On behalf of Major League Baseball, I am terribly saddened by the sudden passing of Kirby Puckett. He was a Hall of Famer in every sense of the term. He was revered throughout the country and will be remembered wherever the game is played. Kirby was taken from us much too soon — and too quickly.

  

  Bud Selig
  • Country
  • Game
  • Taken

• Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.

  

  Pedro Martinez
  • Baseball

• If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

  

  Mike Schmidt
  • Effort
  • Amount
  • Uniforms

• Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.

  

  Curt Schilling
  • Baseball

• Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.

  

  Frank Perdue
  • Dream
  • Baseball

• I love baseball history, and Wrigley Field is as good as it gets when it comes to that.

  

  Ben Zobrist
  • Good
  • History
  • Baseball

• If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.

  

  Amy Bloom
  • People
  • American
  • Game

• Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • American
  • Baseball
  • Games

• Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Good
  • Baseball
  • Independent

• I think my mom and dad did a great job with that, because we with brother never had any competition in baseball. We always tried to help each other.

  

  Big Money
  • Job
  • I Think
  • My Mom

• In baseball, when you get into the batter's box, that's it. It's just you. It's one man against the world. All that matters in that moment is your individual achievement and your individual skill. There is literally nothing that anyone else on your team can do for you. Hell, they're all sitting on the bench, waiting to see what happens, just like the fans in the crowd! It's just you and your bat. And the ball.

  

  Barry Lyga
  • Team
  • Achievement
  • Skill

• Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

  

  Bill Veeck
  • Attitude
  • Baseball
  • Theatre

• Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity.

  

  Bowie Kuhn
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect

• I played football in high school, I played baseball when I was younger, things like that, but I think it was the passion I had for track where you want to do an individual sport and be the best, I think - there's nothing that can replace that.

  

  Tyson Gay
  • School
  • High
  • Passion

• I love baseball - 'Moneyball' was my favorite book when I was 13.

  

  Dylan O'Brien
  • Book
  • Baseball

• When it came to religion, I felt I belonged to no one. It saddened me, it angered me, it confused me, and it made me religiously ambivalent. So I chose my calling: Cubs baseball.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Baseball
  • Confused

• Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Music
  • Business
  • NFL

• I have played professional baseball for over half my life. From the time I picked up a baseball glove, I did not want to put it down.

  

  Bernie Williams
  • Baseball
  • Played
  • Glove

• I love my baseball, and I love my Phillies.

  Chad Hurley
  • Baseball

• I was a fan of baseball growing up. We played baseball; I used to play in an A&P parking lot. It wasn't always easy to find a good baseball field to play in.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We kinda rekindled the fire of baseball in Pittsburgh. We did the exact same thing in Detroit.

  

  Jim Leyland
  • Fire
  • Baseball

• Like hitting a baseball, comedy is very much about timing. To some degree, you either 'got it or you don't.'

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Comedy
  • Baseball

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