Baseball Quotes and Sayings - Page 4
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
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice- versa.
- Casey Stengel
Hitting is 50% above the shoulders.
- Ted Williams
A baseball manager is a necessary evil.
- Sparky Anderson
You can’t hit what you can’t see.
- Walter Johnson
Looking at the ball going over the fence isn’t going to help.
- Henry Aaron
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
- Warren Spahn
A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.
- Humphrey Bogart
Baseball is religion without the mischief.
- Thomas Boswell
A hitter’s impatience is the pitcher’s biggest advantage.
- Pete Rose
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
It’s hard to win a pennant, but it’s harder losing one.
- Chuck Tanner
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
- Lou Gehrig
When they start the game, they don’t yell, “Work ball.” They say, “Play ball.”
- Willie Stargell
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
- Yogi Berra
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.
- Thomas Boswell
Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score probably is a fraud.
- Thomas Boswell
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.
Pitchers, like poets, are born not made.
- Cy Young