Baseball Quotes, Sayings about baseball sport - Page 2
+1Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.
- George Carlin
+1When we played softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
- Woody Allen
+1A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
- Earl Wilson
+1My name is Ted fucking Williams and I’m the greatest hitter in baseball.
- Ted Williams
+1He shouldn’t have gone to high school. It took three years off his pension.
- Walt Weiss
+1Reggie Jackson hit one off me that’s still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
- Dan Quisenberry
+1He threw the ball as far from the bat and as close to the plate as possible.
- Casey Stengel
+1The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.
- Lawrence Ritter
+1I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice.
- Casey Stengel
+1I don’t want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
- Rogers Hornsby
+1Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.
- Sharon Olds
+1Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.
- Joe Garagiola
+1There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.
- Tallulah Bankhead
+1Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring.
- Jerry Izenberg
+1Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster.
- Joe Adcock and Curt Simmons
+1When you’re in a slump, it’s almost as if you look out at the field and it’s one big glove.
- Vance Law
+1The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain’s free throws.
- Rick Wise
+1Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
- Pat Conroy
+1Why does everybody stand up and sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” when they’re already there?
- Larry Anderson
+1I can’t very well tell my batters don’t hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he’s there anyway.
- Gil Hodges
+1We’re going down. We’re going down and I have a .300 lifetime average to take with me. Do you?
- Pete Rose
+1He’d give you the shirt off his back. Of course, he’d call a press conference to announce it.
- Catfish Hunter
+1Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand.
- Wes Westrum
+1Baseball is the only sport I know that when you’re on offense, the other team controls the ball.
- Ken Harrelson
+1A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.
- Ray Fitzgerald
+1Look at him. He knows he’s going to hit me, and I know he’s going to hit, so I’m going to walk him.
- Harvey Haddix
+1Sandy’s fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound.
- Jim Murray
+1You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
- Roy Campanella
+1The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash.
- Jim Murray
+1I’ve come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen.
- Bob Lemon
+1The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.
- Gaylord Perry
+1One hit he hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ass sliding into second.
- Satchel Paigelon
+1The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he’s timid.
- Don Drysdale
+1A baseball park is the one place where a man’s wife doesn’t mind his getting excited over somebody else’s curves.
- Brendan Francis
+1Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.
- Norm Cash
+1That’s the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball.
- Bill Veeck
+1Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
- Ted Williams
+1Say this much for big league baseball it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
- Bruce Catton
+1This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
- Bill Veeck
+1More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.
- Thomas Boswell
