Quotes About Baseball

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.

There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

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.

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.

The only thing that keeps this organization from being recognized as one of the finest in baseball is wins and losses at the major league level.

What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready your lawyer lined up.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

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.

My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'

The reason we call that pitch up and in is because the arms are attached to the shoulder.

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

The Mets just had their first .500-or-better April since July of 1992.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.