Baseball Quotes and Sayings - Page 5
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
When they start the game, they don’t yell, “Work ball.” They say, “Play ball.”
- Willie Stargell
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
- Lou Gehrig
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
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.

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
Pitchers, like poets, are born not made.
- Cy Young
You can’t think and hit at the same time.
- Yogi Berra
The best possible thing in baseball is winning the World Series. The second best thing is losing the World Series.
- Tommy Lasorda
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice.
- Casey Stengel
I don’t care how long you’ve been around, you’ll never see it all.
- Bob Lemon
Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.
I don’t want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
- Rogers Hornsby
My pitching philosophy is simple – keep the ball way from the bat.
- Satchel Paige
When we played softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
- Woody Allen
Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.
- Satchel Paige
I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
- Babe Ruth
