Baseball Quotes
Baseball Quotes
The pitcher has got only a ball. I’ve got a bat. So the percentage of weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
- Hank Aaron
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there is a man on base
- Dave Barry
I had just turned 20, and Jackie told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week.
- Hank Aaron on Jackie Robinson
We’re supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.
- Ed Vargo, major league baseball umpire
Baseball is the writer’s game, and its train of thought, we come to sense, is a shuttle, arrying us constantly forward to the next pitch or inning, or the sudden double into the left-field corner, but we keep hold of the other half of our ticket, for the return trip on the same line. We anticipate happily, and, coming home, reenter an old landscape brightened with fresh colors. Baseball games and plays and mannerisms-the angle of a cap-fade stubbornly and come to mind unbidden, putting us back in some particular park on that special October afternoon or June evening. The players are as young as ever, and we, perhaps not entirely old.
- Roger Angell in Once More Around the Park
Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in vociferous numbers, sustaining themselves with a heavenly ichor that combines loyalty, criticism, cheerfulness, durability, rage, beer and hope, in exquisite proportions.
- Roger Angell in Season Ticket
I’d walk through hell in a gasoline suit to keep playing baseball.
- Pete Rose
Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose-unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
- Robert Frost
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possible be – in baseball and in life.
- Pete Rose
There’s one word that describes baseball – ‘You never know.’
- Joquin Andujar
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
- Red Barber, announcer
“Baseball is religion without the mischief.”
- Thomas Boswell
