Quotes About Baseball

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

In our beautiful memory We were all handsome. We all could sing. We all had the heart Of the prettiest girl in town. And we all hit .300.

I learned how to play the game from Buck O'Neil," Banks would say. Buck said no, Ernie Banks knew how to play, but what he did learn was how to play the game with love.

No, the Dodgers took Piazza in the 62nd round as a personal favor to help him find a Division I college baseball program. See, out of high school, Piazza (with the help of Lasorda) signed with the University of Miami, but he was entirely overmatched there. He got nine plate appearances and one hit. Seeing his future, he quit school.

And that's when manager Eddie Sawyer called for Roberts to pitch relief and the Dodgers' manager Charlie Dressen called in Don Newcombe to match up. Talk about a different time: Roberts and Newcombe had pitched the day before. They were on zero days rest

Pujols was a 13th-round selection by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1999 draft. Thirteenth-round draft picks rarely make it—I do not say this lightly. Since the first year of the draft, only 13 percent of all 13th-round picks have made it to the big leagues at all, and less than 8 percent have posted even one win above replacement.

Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.

Serra High school, to me, was my most enjoyable time for me in my entire life. That was the only time I was free. We just played baseball because it was fun.

I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

Baseball needs me because it needs somebody to stir the pot, and I need it because it's my life. It's the means I have to make a little difference in the world.

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.

There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.

The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.

The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.

I've discovered there is another life besides baseball. You have to be balanced to be a happy person.

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.

Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game

Confucius say: "Baseball wrong — man with four balls cannot walk."

I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium.

Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics.