Baseball Quotes

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games

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.

Hello again, everybody... It's a bee-yoo-tiful day for baseball.

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

It could be, it might be... It is, A home run!

Yeah we're not together anymore. She has got - she has got a new boyfriend now. They just moved into together. And I've heard rumors that he is abusive, which makes you want to go over there with a baseball bat. And then blame it on her boyfriend.

Aw, how could he Jorge Orta lose the ball in the sun, he's from Mexico.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Back, back, back, back. Gone.

Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer.

Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

Ain't no sense worryin' about the things you got control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. And ain't no sense worryin' about the things you don't got control over, 'cause if you don't got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'.

Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

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 7 years without ever hitting the ball.

If a guy is taking his girl for granted, he really deserves a slap, with a baseball bat.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

To succeed in baseball, as in life, you must make adjustments.

Chicks who dig home runs aren't the ones who appeal to me. I think there's sexiness in infield hits because they require technique. I'd rather impress the chicks with my technique than with my brute strength. Then, every now and then, just to show I can do that, too, I might flirt a little by hitting one out.

I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

Fall forward. Here's what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career - the most in the history of baseball. But you don't hear about the strikeouts. People remember the home runs. Fall forward. Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn't either - because number 1,001 was the light bulb. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in this country who are hurting.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Not only do I like to go to bars because I like to drink, I do like to drink, but I go because who do you see there? Baseball fans.

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

They don't think it be like it is, but it do.

If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.

When you win, nothing hurts.

You can't win them all but you can try.

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.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.