More Baseball Sayings, Including Many Old-Time Baseball Quotes

by allinspiration.com

“Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don’t any of these guys ever go fishing?”
– Dave Shiflett, quoted in Houston Chronicle, 29 April 1990

“It’s a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it’s when you discover that your wife left you in May.”
– Denis Norden

“If a horse can’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it.”
– Dick Allen, on artificial turf

“Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It’s the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.”
– Dick Gregory

“The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he’s timid.”
– Don Drysdale, quoted in New York Times, 9 July 1979

“You know you’re pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.”
– Duke Snider

“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.”
– Earl Weaver

“A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.”
– Earl Wilson

“Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.”
– Ernie Harwell

“Baseball? It’s just a game – as simple as a ball and a bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It’s a sport, business – and sometimes even religion.”
– Ernie Harwell

“Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.”
– Frederick B. Wilcox

“The great thing about baseball is that there’s a crisis every day.”
– Gabe Paul

“To have some idea what it’s like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he’s 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.
– Geoffrey Boycott

“What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game…. There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife’s fidelity and his mother’s respectability.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.”
– George Carlin, Brain Droppings

“Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.”
– George F. Will

“They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.
– George F. Will

“I don’t know why people like the home run so much. A home run is over as soon as it starts…. The triple is the most exciting play of the game. A triple is like meeting a woman who excites you, spending the evening talking and getting more excited, then taking her home. It drags on and on. You’re never sure how it’s going to turn out.”
– George Foster

“Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.”
– Greg, age 8

“What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.”
– Harry Caray

“It is well to remember that a Martian observing his first baseball game would be quite correct in concluding that the last two words of the National Anthem are: PLAY BALL!”
– Herbert H. Paper, in Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 April 1989

“A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.”
– Humphrey Bogart

“That’s baseball, and it’s my game. Y’ know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave ‘em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It’s good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of ‘em. ‘
– Humphrey Bogart

“Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.”
– Jackie Robinson

“Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring.”
– Jerry Izenberg

“Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?”
– Jim Bouton

“You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.”
– Jim Bouton

“Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball.”
– Jim Murray

“The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash.”
– Jim Murray

“Sandy’s fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound.”
– Jim Murray, on Sandy Koufax

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