Top 106 Ballpark Quotes & Sayings

Some players just have the natural stroke that you throw them in the lineup and all of the sudden they turn on a ball and hit it out of the ballpark.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

I like to rehearse to the point we're in the ballpark, and expect that we're only going to get one proper take, more or less.

Waking up every day and coming to the ballpark and playing baseball ... that's a good feeling.

The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the empty-seats epoch of Don Buddin and Willie Tasby and unto the decades of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, the ballpark is the star. A crazy-quilt violation of city planning principles, an irregular pile of architecture, a menace to marketing consultants, Fenway Park works. It works as a symbol of New England's pride, as a repository of evergreen hopes, as a tabernacle of lost innocence. It works as a place to watch baseball.

More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.

I go from my room to the ballpark and play baseball. I try to keep it simple.

They could never beat me in Springfield. I loved that old ballpark. If I could have pitched there all my career, I'd be a 300-game winner.

In broadcasting, especially 'cause people are more public, it's hard to be like 'so what are you making?' Finding that information is huge when you're negotiating a contract. You wanna make sure that you're in the same ballpark.

In 2006, I woke up every morning and dreaded the ballpark. I knew how difficult it was to even prepare my body to go out and play.

The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.

Every ballpark used to be unique. Now, it's like women's breasts - if you've seen one, you've seen 'em both.

His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory.

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.

If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.

I do my homework. I come to the ballpark, and I relay any message that I need to relay to the players. I get that off my chest.

You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.

Memoirs are - memory is - rarely 100 percent accurate. Any autobiography is a construct, ballpark, even unnatural. Private diaries, too, can be unreliable - a detail that matters only if the diary is read.

There is nothing worse than sitting in a ballpark and somebody is vomiting behind you.

Pete Rose may not make the Hall of Fame, but a statue of him is going to be erected outside the Cincinnati Reds ballpark.

If you look at professional baseball in New York, you can get all 162 Yankee games on television anytime you want. But people still go to the ballpark because they are two different experiences. It's the same with film.

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

If the fans don’t wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop ‘em.

One thing about ground balls: they don't go out of the ballpark.

Umpires got power, man. You ever notice if you go to a ballpark and there's a close play on first base, they will not run the replay at the ballpark? I've seen umpires go underneath and call up and say if you run one more of those replays, we're gonna forfeit the game. That's how strong their union is.

I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.

There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.

Why did I get married in a ballpark? My wife wanted a big diamond

I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory—that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark, and understand baseball perfectly.

I enjoy coming to the ballpark every day. I don't go to work. I come here to play.

Wrigley Field was built and designed at a time when people got to the ballpark by trolley, train, and horse cart.

Hitting coach John Mallee, he comes to the ballpark way too early for me, man. He drives me nuts.

I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.

Ultimately, the joy of sports is social and psychological, both in the ballpark and around a television on Super Bowl Sunday.

I used to think it would be neat to play my whole career with one team. But as a baseball player you want to come to the ballpark every day knowing you have a chance to win and that the games mean something.

When suddenly everybody is guessing, or some even getting close, to the ballpark of what you're earning - well, that's interesting, that everyone knows what you make.

This guy don't come to the ballpark to beat you. He comes to beat you bad. This (Jackie) Robinson, he plays a ton.

I think when I first started, I tried to make believe I was in the ballpark, sitting next to somebody and just talking. And if you go to a ballgame, and you sit there, you're not going to talk pitches for three hours.

All I know is that when I come to the ballpark I'm going to be on time and give 100 percent. I know that I have to do that to keep my job.

You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.

I never took things for granted. I always told myself to keep working hard, come to the ballpark ready to play, and one day I'll get a chance to play.

As I travel the country for away games, I meet kids fighting cancer in almost every city. They visit the ballpark, and I invite them onto the field so we can chat and then watch the game.

The big ballpark can do it all!

It's fun coming to the ballpark when you're winning.

For me, I'm not going to be hitting the ball out of the ballpark. I know that.

It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the YankeeStadium of ancient times.

If I could go the ballpark and play the game for three hours and then go home? It would be awesome. But that's not the case.

As the days went on, I didn't mind the games. In fact, I looked forward to them. That was the easiest part of all. I couldn't wait to get to the ballpark I'd be the first one there and I was willing to do anything. I think that's why the veterans liked me.

One hundred ten thousand ears in this ballpark, and he's got to hit my ear.

The reason we are at the ballpark is to win that day's game, and we don't need to be concerned with anything else during the time we are in uniform. It makes things a lot simpler, a lot easier.

I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.

I really want to test my athletic ability, my toughness, and my skills against those guys who are in my ballpark size-wise.

I am not the type of person who can leave my game at the ballpark and feel comfortable that my future is set regardless of my performance.

I didn't like The Astrodome or any of the Astro-Turf fields. Probably my worst ballpark was The Met in Minnesota; I hated that place. I was so glad when they tore that place down, you have no idea.

It looked like a ballpark. It smelled like a ballpark. It had a feeling and a heartbeat, a personality that was all baseball.

If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?

Despite the perception, players possess little free time in the cities they frequent on the road. They spend an extraordinarily unbalanced percentage of their time traveling to and at the ballpark.

There's not a ballpark I've ever played in as a visitor or home that has the historic feel and energy that Fenway Park has.

Whether people know the evolution of the conversation or not, I don't know, but thematically, as a comedian, I stay in the same ballpark - around my issues and my philosophy of life.