Baseball Quotes: Over 50 Famous Quotes on Baseball

Baseball Quotes: Motivational and Inspirational Quotes about Baseball

Find a list of over 50 quotes on baseball, some are inspiring and some are downright emotional!

Is there a more romantic sport than the game of baseball?

Whether watching from the bleachers in the minor leagues to peering down from the cheap seats at the cathedrals of Major League Baseball, it’s a sport full of anecdotes, stories and inspirational quotes.

Here is our list of quotes on baseball from some of the game’s greatest players, managers and coaches.

Famous Baseball Quotes

• "Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again." - Bob Feller

• "Baseball is the only field of endeavour where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer." - Ted Williams

• "The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose." - Ernie Banks

• "It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth

• "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination." - Tommy Lasorda

• "There are only two seasons: winter and baseball." - Bill Veeck, Jr.

• "You can't hit what you can't see." - Walter Johnson

• "You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going because you might not get there." - Yogi Berra

• "It ain't over till it's over." - Yogi Berra

• "The only way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up." - Bob Uecker

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• 11. "Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical." - Yogi Berra

• "It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square." - Pete Rose

• "The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." - Babe Ruth

• "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination." - Tommy Lasorda

• "You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first." - Fred Wilpon

• "I've always felt that long, lazy summer days were an integral part of the baseball season." - Tom Glavine

• "A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings." - Earl Wilson

• "Baseball is not a game that builds character, it is a game that reveals it." - John Thorn

• "Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand." - Leo Durocher

• "The first thing a man has to learn in order to play baseball well is to catch a ball." - Christy Mathewson

• "The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose." - Ernie Banks

• "Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing." - Warren Spahn

• "A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that." - Reggie Jackson

• "You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first." - Fred Wilpon

• "A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings." - Earl Wilson

• "You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." - Yogi Berra

• "There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit." - Al Gallagher

• "The game of baseball, in a nutshell, is this: you throw the ball, you hit the ball, you catch the ball." - Joe Garagiola

• "Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead." - Jackie Robinson

• "I love baseball. The guys and the game, and that's that." - Mickey Mantle

• "Baseball is a game that is different from any other." - George Vecsey

• "Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what iy most truly is, is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps." - Willie Mays

• "Baseball is a game where a man can be himself, in every sense of the word, from the first pitch of the season to the last out of the World Series." - Phil Rizzuto

• "Baseball is a game that breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." - A. Bartlett Giamatti

• "Baseball is an allegorical play about America, a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage, fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate, and sober self-esteem." - Saul Steinberg

• "Baseball is a game that is uniquely American. It is a game that is about the journey, not the destination." - George Vecsey

• "Baseball is a game of inches. The ball is just a little bit harder to hit than a golf ball." - George Brett

• "Baseball is a game where the players and fans all wear the same uniform of hope." - Unknown

• "Baseball is a game of inches, and inches make the champion." - Branch Rickey

• “As I grew up, I knew that as a building (Fenway Park) was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid at Giza, the nation’s capitol, the czar’s Winter Palace, and the Louvre — except, of course, that is better than all those inconsequential places” - Bart Giamatti

• “Baseball is a good thing. Always was, always will be.” - Stephen King

• “If there are any curses left in baseball, they are all on the north side of Chicago.” - Tucker Elliot

• “A man has to have goals – for a day, for a lifetime – and that was mine, to have people say, ‘There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.” - Ted Willams

• “I do what I’ve trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher’s mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.” - Barry Lyga

• “The next time someone whines that baseball doesn’t have enough action, you can do two things: first, explain the planning, strategizing, calculating, and deception that place before every pitch. Then quote Hall-of-Fame announcer Red Barber: “Baseball is dull only to dull minds.” - Zack Hample

• “A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end, it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.” - Jim Bouton

• "There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all." - Lou Gehrig

• "Baseball was 100% of my life." - Ty Cobb

• "If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, Jeopardy, I hate to lose." - Derek Jeter

• "I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw." - Willie Mays

• "I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen." - Bob Lemon

• "As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy." - Garth Brooks

• "Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets." - Yogi Berra