Quotes About Baseball

Well-struck baseballs must land safely in the gloves of fielders; borderline calls must go the way of the artist on the mound. Pitch selection must be on point. Defensive genius must occur. And everyone must adhere to the time tested baseball tradition of superstition.

They always say baseball is 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical, whatever that saying is. I don't even think I know it. But this game is already a game of failure. Going into it not feeling good, battling whatever injuries, tests you even more.

But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.

I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.

baseball is really the game that tells you what life is going to be: fastballs, errors, wild pitching, clutch hits, strike-outs, not getting to first base, things coming in from left field. Near misses. And that's just the romance part.

He wakes! The steel giant wakes! Long, long ago he rose from the sea, with the blood of life streaming from his belly. And then they buried him with thunder...and...carrots...at Stonehenge. But now he wakes again. The Age of Rotten Fish is over; the Age of Steel and Bombs is upon us. And he had come to give us life and strength, to free us form these cells, to restore us once again to baseball and ping pong! Sent by God from the Great Beyond!!!

I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.

I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.

If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.

I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium.

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.

The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.

We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.

I had been unaware that baseball was a Republican sport.

A World Series trophy is a wonderful thing to behold.

I like playing all sports, from football to soccer, and I love playing baseball.

I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.

I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film.