Quotations About Baseball
Related: Basketball, Football, Games, Sports, Hockey
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
Ball Four, 1970
Ball Four, 1970
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
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
Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.
Mary McGrory
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
October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, basketball, and football.
Jason Love
I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.
Tom Clark
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard
A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.
Humphrey Bogart
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
Roy Campanella
I don't know if I want to go to New York. They'll have to pay me a lot more money because I like it here in Kansas City.
Roger Maris
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
Paul Gallico
When I am not playing baseball I like to sleep and hang out with my friends playing Xbox.
Alvin Simmons
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.
George F. Will
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Earl Wilson
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
Bob Lemon
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 are men on base.
Dave Barry