Famous Baseball Saying

Famous Baseball Saying

Jacques Barzun
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game.

Charles Dryden
Washington: first in war, first in peace, and last in the American League.

Red Smith, to Moe Berg
I understand, Moe, that you are in counter-intelligence, which, I assume, means you are against intelligence

George Plimpton
The pitcher is happiest with his arm idle. He prefers to dawdle in the present, knowing that as soon as he gets on the mound and starts his windup, he delivers himself to the uncertainty of the future.

Al Rosen
The greatest thrill in the world is to end the game with a home run and watch everybody else walk off the field while you're running the bases on air.

Rogers Hornsby
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.

Ted Williams
The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.

Joe Adcock
Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

Reggie Jackson
The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

Red Barber
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

Fresco Thompson, on Babe Herman
He wore a glove for one reason: it was a league custom. The glove would last him a minimum of six years because it rarely made contact with the ball.

Tim McCarver
I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter, that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit.

Danny Ozark, on Jay Johnstone
What makes him unusual is that he thinks he's normal and everyone else is nuts.

Jeff Smulyan
If it comes down to taking care of my mother in her old age and taking care of my centerfielder in his young age, I hope she understands.

Charles Bricker
Being named manager of the Seattle Mariners is like becoming the head chef at McDonalds.

President Gerald Ford
I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

Robert S. Wieder
Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic.
Bill Lee
When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate Church and State. You have to separate mind and body.

Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Pete Rose
I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to keep playing baseball.

George Frazier, pitcher
I don't put any foreign substances on the baseball. Everything I use is from the good old U.S.A.

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

David Hinckley
The whole reason little boys always bring gloves to baseball games and old boys never do: Because through baseball, they have learned what they can reasonably expect from life.

Casey Stengel
He's a remarkable catcher, that Canzoneri. He's the only defensive catcher in baseball who can't catch.

Susan Sarandon
I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. And the only church that truly feeds the soul, day-in day-out, is the Church of Baseball.

Casey Stengel
I had many years that I was not so successful as a ballplayer, as it is a game of skill

Leo Durocher
If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, 'Sorry Mom, but nobody beats me.

Happy Birthday for him. He doesn't usually take that shot but it went in. I've been coaching 31 years and I've seen a whole lot of that. It's what makes high-school basketball so exciting.Dennis Terry

If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend
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Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Thomas Jones