Baseball Quotes

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Frederick B. Wilcox

Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off... the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases.
Rick Maksian

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

To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.
Steve Hovley

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.
Ernie Harwell, "The Game for All America," 1955

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra

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

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

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
Casey Stengel

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.
Mickey Mantle

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
WillieMays

Show me a guy whos afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
Lou Brock

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Ben Hogan

If at first you dont succeed, you are running about average.
M.H. Alderson

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
Norman Ralph Augustine

When someone tells me the is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, I'm gonna prove you wrong.
Picabo Street

Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Billie Jean King

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.
Bill Shoemaker

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Satchel Paige

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club wont be worth a dime.
Babe ruth

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Herbert Hoover

When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.
Pat Riley