Best Baseball Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There are several insights at the heart of the A’s system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it’s a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god’s sake don’t go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.”

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Author:Michael Lewis

“It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.”

Play Would Be Able Fantasy Son Baseball Lifetime Athlete My Son Benches Professional Athlete

Author:Matthew Modine

“I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball.”

Faces Baseball Ugly Ugly Face

Author:Pedro Martinez

“I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that's what I try to do.”

People Trying I Can Play Fun Pieces Areas Baseball Having Fun Scream

Author:Pedro Martinez

“I think it's a natural fit, major league baseball and country music.”

Thinking Country Natural Fit Majors Baseball League Major League Major League Baseball

Author:Joe Nichols

“I love baseball - Moneyball was my favorite book when I was 13.”

Book Baseball My Favorite Favorite Book Baseball Love

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone.”

People Men White Worst Baseball Drivers Vans Caps Carrier Baseball Caps

Author:Paul O'Grady

“I had an extremely boring time doing 20 to 30 trades a day while everyone was talking about baseball or basketball. So I stood there fantasizing about a device that could do the same thing I was doing.”

Talking Basketball Baseball Trade Boring Devices

Author:Thomas Peterffy

“Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.”

Way Helping Home Attention Player Mines Baseball Help Me Baseball Player Grabbing

Author:Dan Quisenberry

“The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.”

Baseball Best Things Homework

Author:Dan Quisenberry

“They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick.”

Thinking Way Seems Games Baseball Come Up

Author:Mike Quade

“You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.”

Looks Happens Fans Type Baseball South Apathy

Author:Mike Quade

“I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.”

Football Baseball Rugby American Football Baseball Love

Author:Carlos Slim

“I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.”

Character Careers Player Baseball Blessed Wide Range Baseball Player

Author:Daniel Sunjata

“I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It's really fun and there's a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium.”

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Author:Chad Smith

“Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.”

Thinking Way Needs Fun Style Tvs Baseball Entertaining Calories

Author:Gail Simmons

“You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.”

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Author:George Steinbrenner

“I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.”

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Author:Ichiro Suzuki

“A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game.”

Games Drug Baseball Clouds Hang Over

Author:Peter Ueberroth

“I love what I do. I'm appreciative and I'm still competitive. I still love baseball, but it doesn't consume me. If I can't do it anymore, then I go home and do something else. It's not the end of the world. It's just the end of your career.”

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Author:Dontrelle Willis

“I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.”

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Author:Muddy Waters

“I love the flow of the game. There’s a certain fluidity to basketball. I don’t enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.”

Way Certain Games Enjoy Football Basketball Flow Baseball Fluidity

Author:Adam Yauch

“I've been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball." "Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.”

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Author:Criss Jami

“If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don't stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you'll never see it again.”

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Author:Tom Waits

“Fenway is the essence of baseball”

Essence Baseball

Author:Tom Seaver

“I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.”

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Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.

“There's a lot of things more than baseball that I want to do.”

Want Baseball

Author:Mariano Rivera

“Baseball was just the avenue that the Lord used so I can provide for my family.”

I Can Used Lord My Family Baseball Avenues

Author:Mariano Rivera

“I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.”

“In baseball, you've got to keep working.”

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Author:Danny Bautista

“There are some people who might look better if you smacked them in the head with a baseball bat.”

People Ifs Looks Might Baseball Bats

Author:Jared Leto

“Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.”

Play Wanted Player Majors Baseball League Plus Major League

Author:Stan Musial

“I'm 36 years old, I love my family, I love baseball, and I'm about to become a farmer. But until I heard the voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.”

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Author:Ray Kinsella

“Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to.”

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Author:Branch Rickey

“When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.”

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Author:Bruce Sutter

“When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba.”

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Author:William Levy

“I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.”

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Author:Sadaharu Oh

“What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better.”

People Thinking Knows Mind Stills Important Hard Games Know How Baseball Important Things Get Better Cracks Of My Mind Bad Games

Author:Brady Anderson

“One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.”

Inspiration Games Becoming Baseball Boards Board Games

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don't think about baseball. You don't think about anything. It's just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway.”

Thinking Knows Love Is Gone Air Baseball Everyday Planes Traffic Everyday Life Looking Down Freeways Up In The Air

Author:Cory Lidle

“When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.”

Real Play Wanted Young Fields Baseball Grades Ninth Grade Center Field

Author:Ryan Sypek

“There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.”

Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

“A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.”

Ifs Games Fun Company Seeing Baseball Famous Baseball Baseball Games Fun Work

Book:The Business of Life

Source: The Business of Life

“Put the right pitching mechanics together with good health, and there's nothing surprising about lasting a long time.”

Long Together Long Time Baseball Lasting Surprising Mechanic Good Health Pitching

Author:Nolan Ryan

“I have never discussed a player contract with an agent and I like to think I never will.”

Thinking Player Baseball Agents Contracts

Author:Walter O'Malley

“The older pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub. He doesn't try to do it all himself.”

Trying Baseball Acquire Pitcher

Author:Burleigh Grimes

“Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.”

Games Baseball Forgotten

Author:Alvin Dark

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

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Author:Robert Frost

“Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.”

Years Hope Next Waiting Fans Cry Football Baseball Hockey Next Year Gardener Football Fan Baseball Fans Hockey Fan

Author:Robert Orben

“Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.”

Giving Feelings Baseball Give Me Strikes Faster Shooting Good Feeling

Author:Ernest Hemingway

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