Baseball Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“The real beauty of it – key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.”
– Vince Gill

“I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.”
– Walt Whitman

“Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand.”
– Wes Westrum

“Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.”
– Willie Mays

“Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.”
– Willie Mays

“I’m a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game.”
– Willie Mays

“The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.”
– Willie Mays

“I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.”
– Willie Mays

“And my father didn’t have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn’t have black quarterbacks, and I don’t think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5′ 11″. So I just picked baseball.”
– Willie Mays

“I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you’ll never have a problem. That’s what I did.”
– Willie Mays

“That’s how easy baseball was for me. I’m not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.”
– Willie Mays

“People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can’t think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.”
– Willie Stargell

“Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.”
– Willie Stargell

“To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.”
– Willie Stargell

“My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.”
– Willie Stargell

“Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.”
– Willie Stargell

“I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.”
– Willie Stargell

“People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can’t think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.”
– Willie Stargell

“Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.”
– Yogi Berra

“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.”
– Yogi Berra

“Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.”
– Yogi Berra

“In baseball, you don’t know nothing.”
– Yogi Berra

“It’s fun; baseball’s fun.”
– Yogi Berra

“Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.”
– Yogi Berra

“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.”
– Yogi Berra

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