Top 1200 Baseball Quotes & Sayings

Baseball is a religion in my classroom. It's a very important part of life, baseball.

When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.

Praise the name of baseball. The word will set captives free. The word will open the eyes of the blind. The word will raise the dead. Have you the word of baseball living inside you? Has the word of baseball become part of you? Do you live it, play it, digest it, forever? Let an old man tell you to make the word of baseball your life. Walk into the world and speak of baseball. Let the word flow through you like water, so that it may quicken the thirst of your fellow man.

I'm a baseball player. Not being able to play baseball certainly was a lonely thing.

The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.

I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.

I'm a baseball fan, but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions, and I don't want to pretend to be.

It's sort of like baseball - the more you know about baseball, the more you get into a baseball game. NASCAR is the same way.

I just wanted to play baseball because I liked baseball. I never was giving up on football.

Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.

Baseball has been very good to me, but baseball has evolved into a hybrid of work and passion.

I was a fan of baseball growing up. We played baseball; I used to play in an A&P parking lot. It wasn't always easy to find a good baseball field to play in.

There are a lot of pitchers in baseball who should celebrate his life and what he did for the game of baseball.

I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

If I didn't play baseball I don't know what I would do. It just doesn't seem right if I go a day without baseball.

Baseball is the reason I have my apartment, baseball is the reason I'm on the cover of video game. Baseball is what I do.

My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.

Basketball has always been a sport I loved and grew up playing. For me, it was one of those things that... I guess baseball was just in my genes a little bit. I have a lot of cousins that played baseball. Basketball is not an easy sport - you definitely got to be gifted to play that game. I felt like I was pretty good at it, but my ability was better in baseball.

The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.

I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most English people look wrong in a baseball cap.

The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.

Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.

Baseball caps never go out of style and are easy to wear. Beyond baseball, beyond sports, I really do think a baseball cap is for everyone.

I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.

I grew up playing football and baseball and moved on to play college baseball, and, you know, as a kid, my dream was to play professional baseball.

I've been playing baseball since I was four. I've got baseball in my blood. I love baseball.

Baseball is all I ever wanted. I could eat, sleep, and dream baseball.

Baseball people think they can find athletes with good bodies and teach them to play baseball. What's wrong with giving someone who already knows how to play baseball a chance? I think I fall into that category.

One of my heroes growing up was Jackie Robinson. My mom, an ardent baseball fan from whom I got my love of the game, had an old baseball card of his from the 1950s and told us his amazing story of courage in integrating baseball.

I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.

I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.

We in the Negro leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing. We played with a round ball, and we played with a round bat. And we wore baseball uniforms, and we thought that we were making a contribution to baseball. We loved the game, and we liked to play it.

I always enjoyed the training part of baseball. I went to play college baseball and decided it wasn't for me.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

One of my fun road trips was [when] a group of guys and I rented a tour bus and we started in Orlando and drove all the way around the country going to baseball games. That was an awesome trip because each night we would go to a new baseball stadium, watch a baseball game, get in the bus, wake up [in] the next city, go to another baseball game. We did this for a little while and it was great. We called that trip the Rats on the Bus and it was a fun trip.

Baseball wasn't necessarily my first sport in terms of liking it. I'd never played baseball or softball growing up.

I got into baseball, and everyone just started calling me a geek, like, 'There's the nerd from Harvard.' Then it took 20 years of working in baseball and me actually leaving and going to football for people to say, 'He's the baseball guy.' So maybe at some point I'll be known as a football guy too.

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

Baseball was my main sport, but I peaked when I reached high school and so my baseball career stopped.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

I think you come to watch baseball, and if you're a true fan, then you enjoy watching baseball. MLB tries to change this and change that, speed up the games, but baseball's baseball. You can't change it. It's America's pastime. It's the greatest game on earth. I don't really want to change it that much.

The professional game, in a lot of ways, sucks. It's not fun like 11-year-old baseball was or college baseball or high school baseball.

I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.

It's bad for baseball to have owners who can benefit another business by losing money in baseball.

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

My baseball career ended in college.I played on the freshman team, but was becoming more drawn to intellectualism than athleticism, and so I gave up baseball, and it was perfect timing because baseball was going to give up me very soon.

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.

I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.

Once you get the hang of how all this works, it's no biggie. It's baseball, man. It's baseball.

It's the spirit of Dominicans coming out and the pride that we have in our music and our baseball players. Dominicans love two things: politics and baseball. When we're not talking politics, we're talking baseball.

The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me.

I think that it takes one person in the household to be a baseball fan for people to love baseball. And if you don't love baseball as a parent, your kids are not going to love it because you're not watching it.

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.

I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.

I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.