Practice perfect today, play like a champion tomorrow.
My heroes, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can’t take that from me.
– Derek Jeter
Jeter is amazing.
Don’t let the fear of striking out keep you away from playing the game.
Offense wins games, Defense wins championships.
You can’t just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.
– Mia Hamm
Will is greater than skill.
Will > Skill
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
– Hank Aaron
Rub some dirt on it, you ain’t hurt!!
Life is like baseball. You will not hit every pitch. Make the most of the ones you do.
If you didn’t get dirty you didn’t play.
The harder you work the luckier you get.
Quitters, NEVER win, but Winners, NEVER quit.
Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
– Leo Durocher
You know your a true baseball player when…
1. You call your dad coach.
2. You have a batting cage in your backyard.
3. You think there are 3 stikes to everything in life.
Even God played baseball – In the ” Big Inning ” He made the heavens and earth.
It’s not how you look when you’re playing the game, it’s how you play the game when people are watching.
It’s not how hard you practice when somebody is watching, it’s how hard you practice when nobody is watching.
Baseball is the hardest of all sports, your trying to hit a round ball, with a round bat, squarely.
Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard.
I can’t guarantee you will win every time you try but I can guarantee you will lose every time you don’t try.
Give it your all or go home!
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
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.
Heroes are remembered but legends live forever.
– Babe Ruth
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice- versa.
– Casey Stengel
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
– Lou Gehrig
You can’t hit the ball if you’re thinking about all the ways you can miss.
Baseball is not a game, it’s a passion.
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.
– Bryant Gumbel
Baseball is all about getting scraps and cuts, if you don’t like getting them get off the field…
No grass stains – no glory, No bruises – no story.
I may not excel in school, but when I step on the softball field it is the one place I can be a genius.
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
– Warren Spahn
The difference between a good baseball player and a great one is not that the great one doesn’t make mistakes. What makes him great is that he knows how to handle it when he makes one.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
– Jim Bouton
You can’t think and hit at the same time.
– Yogi Berra
I was once told, it doesn’t matter whether you win of lose, its about how you play the game and have fun. But the game is a lot more fun when you win.
When they start the game, they don’t yell, “Work ball.” They say, “Play ball.”
– Willie Stargell
“Errors can cost you, mental errors can keep you out of the game”
Practice Hard, Play Hard, Be Hard To Beat.
There are three types of players. The ones who don’t know what’s happening. The ones who watch what’s happening. And the ones who make it happen.
Play hard or don’t play at all.
It ain’t over till it’s over.
– Yogi Berra
Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.
– Satchel Paige
Baseball statistics are like a bikini. They show you a lot. But they don’t show you everything.
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
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possible be – in baseball and in life.
– Pete Rose
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
– Yogi Berra
Baseball is a game of inches.
– Branch Rickey
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed.
– Bill Veeck
The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
– Tommy Lasorda
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
Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.
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
Baseball is religion without the mischief.
– Thomas Boswell
I didn’t get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.
– Wade Boggs
The most important pitch, is the next one.
When you step into the batter’s box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.
– Pete Rose
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.
A hitter’s impatience is the pitcher’s biggest advantage.
– Pete Rose
They give you a spherical ball, a cylindrical bat, and what do they tell you to do? Square it up.
Nothing is given…Everything is earned 90 feet at a time.
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
– Ted Williams
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice.
– Casey Stengel
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.
– Thomas Boswell
A baseball manager is a necessary evil.
– Sparky Anderson
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
– Red Barber
When we played softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
– Woody Allen
It ain’t like football. You can’t make up no trick plays.
– Yogi Berra
You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
– Jim Bouton
Hitting is 50% above the shoulders.
– Ted Williams
You can’t lose if they don’t score.
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
– Tommy Lasorda
Looking at the ball going over the fence isn’t going to help.
– Henry Aaron
I see great things in baseball.
– Walt Whitman
Haha defense wins championships, you try putting a team together who can win a championship without scoring a run.
You can’t hit what you can’t see.
– Walter Johnson
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
It’s getting late early.
– Yogi Berra
Pitchers, like poets, are born not made.
– Cy Young
Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!
– Babe Ruth
A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.
– Humphrey Bogart
The only way they know that you’re for real, is shutting them up, and proving them wrong.
It’s hard to win a pennant, but it’s harder losing one.
– Chuck Tanner
Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it’s about love, integrity, and respect.
– Pat Gillick
Watching your son give all he’s got, priceless!!!
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
– Rogers Hornsby
Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster.
– Joe Addock
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
Softball- Don’t let the name fool you!
Finish strong. Don’t look at that score board. If you are winning or losing, play your hardest, because it makes people respect you. Most importantly, it makes you a better person in the game and in life.
– Words of my High School Softball Coach, who also took us to win the Slow- Pitch State Championship and helped us win many district championships in both slow- pitch and fast- pitch.
Life begins when the season starts.
The best possible thing in baseball is winning the World Series. The second best thing is losing the World Series.
– Tommy Lasorda
I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.
– Yogi Berra
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
– Babe Ruth
Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?
– George Bernard Shaw
Win the last game you play!
Softball is a way of life, not a game.
My pitching philosophy is simple – keep the ball way from the bat.
– Satchel Paige
Baseball is not a game, It’s a way of life.
Setbacks pave the way for comebacks.
It’s not how you look when you’re playing the game, its how you play the game when people are watching. And if you succeed don’t let it get to your head.
Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.
Defense wins championships, offense sells tickets.
I don’t care how long you’ve been around, you’ll never see it all.
– Bob Lemon
Coach told me defense wins championships, then I said I thought the object of the game is to score more than the other team.
The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.
– G. Perry
I was too old and too beat up from football when I discovered my true love and always will be baseball.
Losing sucks.
– Pete Rose
Life is a game. Softball is serious.
No crying on the softball field.
There are only five things you can do in baseball – run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
– Leo Durocher
Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
– Babe Ruth
I think I throw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just doesn’t get there as fast.
– Eddie Bane
I’ve never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
– Leo Durocher
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
– Joe Garagiola
Baseball is more than a game. It’s like life played out on a field.
– Juliana Hatfield
Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it’s still being made all over the place, all the time.
– Michael Lewis
Okay you guys, pair up in threes!
– Yogi Berra
SOFTBALL… There aint nothing SOFT about it!!!
My batting and fielding gets better the older I get.
Losing is just yourself needing a rest.
If it weren’t for baseball, many kids wouldn’t know what a millionaire looked like.
– Phyllis Diller
No matter how good you are, you’re going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you’re going to win one-third of your games. It’s the other third that makes the difference.
– Tommy Lasorda
If a bruise ain’t got stitches, I don’t want to hear about it.
Baseball is the sport of this country and nobody can take that away.
I watch a lot of baseball on radio.
– Gerald Ford