More Baseball Sayings, Including Many Old-Time Baseball Quotes

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“[A knuckleball is] a curve ball that doesn’t give a damn.”
– Jimmy Cannon

“Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher’s mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. ”
– Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby

“Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster.”
– Joe Adcock and Curt Simmons (attributed)

“A ball player’s got to be kept hungry to become a big-leaguer. That’s why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.”
– Joe DiMaggio, quoted in New York Times, 30 April 1961

“Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.”
– Joe Garagiola

“Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.”
– Joe Garagiola, Baseball is a Funny Game

“Well, boys, it’s a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.”
– Joe Schultz

“Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don’t think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base – in both senses – greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.
– John Fowles

“Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.”
– John Leonard, New York Times, 2 November 1975

“Don’t park in the spaces marked, “Reserved for Umpires.”
– John McSherry

“Baseball is the only sport I know that when you’re on offense, the other team controls the ball.”
– Ken Harrelson, Sports Illustrated, 6 September 1976

“Why does everybody stand up and sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” when they’re already there?”
– Larry Anderson

“The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays.”
– Lawrence Ritter

“What are we at the park for except to win? I’d trip my mother. I’d help her up, brusher her off, tell her I’m sorry. But mother don’t make it to third.”
– Leo Durocher

“You don’t save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.”
– Leo Durocher, in New York Times, 16 May 1965

“A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores.”
– M*A*S*H, Klinger, “Bug-Out,” 1976

“Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average.”
– Mark Kramer

“During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.”
– Mickey Mantle

“My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.”
– Mickey Mantle

“Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax.”
– Mike Royko

“It’s no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards.”
– Mike Royko

“In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless…. In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.”
– Neville Cardus

“There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.”
– Neville Cardus

“Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball – you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.”
– Nomar Garciaparra

“Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball. ”
– Norm Cash, on his 1,081 strikeouts

“Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.”
– Pat Conroy

“A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It’s like the old days revived. We’re loved and hated, but always in larger doses than any other team. We’re the only team in any sport whose name and uniform and insignia are synonymous with their entire sport all over the world…. the Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined.”
– Paul Blair, quoted in Washington Post, 22 June 1978

“No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.”
– Paul Gallico

“Don’t tell me about the world. Not today. It’s springtime and they’re knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.”
– Pete Hamill

“Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.”
– Phil Linz

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