Baseball - The best Quotes

Baseball - The best Quotes

Baseball is more than a sport, it's what drives me.

Corey Seager - May 2021

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

Khaled Hosseini

That's what I love about baseball, that it gives the opportunity for every single guy to develop and play the game. There's not a rule that you have to be 6 foot or you have to be real strong to play baseball or to become a good player.

Jose Altuve

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

Mickey Mantle

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

Mickey Mantle

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

Casey Stengel

I just want to play baseball.

David Ortiz

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

Reggie Jackson

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

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.

Rogers Hornsby

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

Tommy Lasorda

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

Tommy Lasorda

I wanted to play baseball!

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

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

I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.

Ralph Kiner

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

Satchel Paige

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That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

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What I really love about sports isn't winning, ya know? It's having to fight and struggle and give it all you got to reach the top.

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People always ask me, "what is your secret?" I'll tell you what the secret is: Work your a-s off in the gym, 14 times a week.

Markus Rühl

You don't quit in sports. You retire. You don't get to quit. It's not an option.

Herm Edwards

The future ain’t what it used to be.

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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

Tommy Lasorda

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Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.

Tommy Lasorda

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If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

Mickey Mantle

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

Mickey Mantle

I'm at a loss for words, it's a really special moment.

Corey Seager - November 2023, about the Rangers' World Series title

It's like going down the road with a speed bump. What you've gotta do is slow down and get over that speed bump and continue down the road. And I think that's what the Raiders are doing right now. They are in the midst of getting over that speed bump. And when they get over that speed bump, it's going to be smooth sailing.

Bo Jackson - November 2021

Las Vegas Raiders

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.

Khaled Hosseini

You win a championship, and you feel 7 feet tall.

Jose Altuve

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.

Casey Stengel

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

David Ortiz

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In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.

Reggie Jackson

New York Yankees

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

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I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

Ambition Winning

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