Best Opening Day Baseball Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.”

“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.”

“I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.”

“Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.”

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Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.”

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Book:My Prison Without Bars

Source: My Prison Without Bars

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

“All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.”

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Author:Babe Ruth

“Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.”

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Author:Rob Sheffield

“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.”

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Author:Walt Whitman

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

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

“I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.”

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Author:Carl Yastrzemski

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”

“When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.”

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Author:Vance Law

“When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."”

“I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.”

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Author:Babe Ruth

“You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.”

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

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Author:Phil Linz

“Above anything else, I hate to lose.”

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Author:Jackie Robinson

“Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.”

Source: The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

“I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.”

“When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. Vance Law Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.”

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Author:Bob Lemon

“I stare out the window and wait for spring.”

“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.”

“There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.”

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Book:A Year in the Sun: The Games, the Players, the Pleasure of Sports

Source: A Year in the Sun: The Games, the Players, the Pleasure of Sports

“You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.”

“I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.”

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Author:Roger Ebert

“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.”

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Author:Bob Feller

“There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.”

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Author:George Brett

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