Baseball Quotes And Sayings

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“I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it’s all said and done, I’ll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.”
– Rickey Henderson

“Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.”
– Robert Frost

“Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played – skiing, baseball, fishing – there is no greater example than golf, because you’re playing against yourself and nature.”
– Robert Redford

“Baseball has been very good to me.”
– Roberto Clemente

“The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, ‘Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.’ She’s got a baseball bat and yelling, ‘You want a piece of me?’”
– Robin Williams

“Cricket is basically baseball on valium.”
– Robin Williams

“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 wasn’t easy for me.”
– Ryne Sandberg

“People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.”
– Sandy Koufax

“I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.”
– Sargent Shriver

“I ain’t ever had a job, I just always played baseball.”
– Satchel Paige

“The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.”
– Satchel Paige

“When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.”
– Scott Caan

“I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn’t pick me to play baseball.”
– Scott Hamilton

“I don’t know anything about baseball.”
– Sean Connery

“Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.”
– Sparky Anderson

“Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.”
– Susan Sarandon

“That’s what Major League Baseball’s steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.”
– Suzanne Fields

“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

“Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.”
– Ted Williams

“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

“Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don’t have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can’t stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there’s too much stimulation.”
– Temple Grandin

“Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.”
– Thomas Sowell

“In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.”
– Tom Seaver

“There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.”
– Tommy Lasorda

“Baseball is like driving, it’s the one who gets home safely that counts.”
– Tommy Lasorda

“You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we’re just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.”
– Trey Parker

“I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.”
– Ty Cobb

“The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that’s it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.”
– Ty Cobb

“I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate – and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life – is the loneliness on the road.”
– Vin Scully

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