Quotes by Baseball Players - Page 3

The author says his young son, adopted from South Korea, occasionally burps and says thank you but otherwise is doing all right.
Jim Bouton
Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.
Billy Sunday
Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
Satchel Paige
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth
It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth
If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.
Yogi Berra
Trying to get a fast ball past Hank Aaron is like trying to get the sun past a rooster.
Curt Simmons
You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives,The crackle of their funeral pyres,
Dick Allen
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bull pen.
Bob Lemon
I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.
Hank Aaron
Every woman deserves to be handled like a princess, She just needs to find her prince.
Mitchell Edward Page
It's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit it square.
Pete Rose
High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game.
Jim Bouton
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'll just hit the dry side of the ball.
Stan Musial
Pitching is the art of instilling fear by making a man flinch.
Sandy Koufax
Banning the word bossy doesn’t promote anything, especially leadership. In fact, it would actually show that being bossy works. We don’t need to ban the word bossy, we need to get rid of bossiness. The best way to do that? Be a real leader. How poetic.
Darrell Cheney
Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing you can't ever stop.
Pete Rose
A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.
Jackie Robinson
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
Christy Mathewson
If you don't throw it they can't hit it.
Lefty Gomez
When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day
Sam Ewing
I knew how far a little boy or girl could run with 50 words of reassurance.
Jim Abbott
If you lose you're going to be fired and if you win you only put off the day you're going to be fired.
Leo Durocher
If you think too long you think wrong.
Jim Kaat
The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
Billy Sunday
Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat.
Ralph Kiner
The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell if experience was that important we'd never have anybody walking on the moon.
Doug Rader
When his enthusiasm goes he's through as a player.
Pete Rose
Time served does not guarantee maturity.
Doug Glanville
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
There are only five things you can do in baseball: run throw catch hit and hit with power.
Leo Durocher
Your brain commands your body to "Run forward! Bend! Scoop up the ball! Peg it to the infield!" Then your body says "Who me?"
Joe DiMaggio
it is what it is
Hank Knabe
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron
It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth
And suddenly, the earth was an alien place, and she a voyager without sure destination.
Rodgers Clemens
Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
Warren Spahn
I am a new universe beginning to expand.
Scott Service
They X-rayed my head and found nothing.
Dizzy Dean
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination. -Tommy Lasorda
Tommy La Sorda
The body manifests what the mind harbors.
Jerry Augustine
The most expected thing you can expect is what's unexpected.
Dick Allen
Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
Billy Sunday
I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
Leo Durocher
Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.
Billy Sunday
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes.
Wade Boggs