Baseball Quotes and Sayings - Page 3
It ain’t like football. You can’t make up no trick plays.
- Yogi Berra
The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
- Tommy Lasorda
“Hard Work Beats Talent When Talent Doesn’t Work”
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice- versa.
- Casey Stengel
In baseball, you can’t kill the clock. You’ve got to give the other man his chance. That’s why this is the greatest game.
- Earl Weaver
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed.
- Bill Veeck
When you step into the batter’s box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.
- Pete Rose
I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter, that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit.
- Tim McCarver
A hitter’s impatience is the pitcher’s biggest advantage.
- Pete Rose
It’s hard to win a pennant, but it’s harder losing one.
- Chuck Tanner
All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.
- Thomas Boswell
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.
Life begins when the season starts.
Softball is like love, first you learn the rules of the game, and then you forget the rules and play from your heart.
Practice like you play, play like you practice.
I make my weaknesses my strengths and my strengths stronger.
Pitchers, like poets, are born not made.
- Cy Young
I don’t want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
- Rogers Hornsby
The best possible thing in baseball is winning the World Series. The second best thing is losing the World Series.
- Tommy Lasorda
I don’t care how long you’ve been around, you’ll never see it all.
- Bob Lemon
My pitching philosophy is simple – keep the ball way from the bat.
- Satchel Paige
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.
- Bill Veeck