Baseball Quotes

Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters that crowd around the dugouts can quite smother the exhilarating spaciousness and grace of this impudently relaxed sport, a game of innumerable potential redemptions and curious disappointments.

Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life.

As a general comment on baseball:"90% of the game is half mental."

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

It's fun; baseball's fun.

Third ain't so bad if nothin' is hit to you.

In baseball, you don't know nothin'.

Swing at the strikes.

I always get very calm with baseball.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.

I can't remember the last time I went to a game and there was a fight. I think they fight more in baseball now than they do in hockey.

I don't know if it's good for baseball, but it sure beats the hell out of rooming with Phil Rizzuto!

In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home!

Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.

When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.

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

You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.

There was a beauty here bigger than the hurtling beauty of basketball, a beauty refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness, of waiting, waiting for the pitcher to complete his gaze toward first base and throw his lightning, a game whose very taste, of spit and dust and grass and sweat and leather and sun, was America.

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.

I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come.

Ninety percent of the game (baseball) is half mental.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

All pitchers are liars or crybabies.