2,899 Quotes About Baseball

Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.

Worrying about things you can't control is a waste both on the baseball field and in life.

Four out of five doctors prescribe baseball for whatever ails you. The fifth guy is a quack.

The thing I write will be the thing I write.

[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'"(One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.)

This is the perfect place for you, Henry. With the right support you could become the next Aparicio. Personally, I think everyone involved—you, me, the front office—should do everything possible to make sure you wind up wearing a St. Louis Cardinals cap.”Henry reaches up and touched his brim. “I’m wearing one right now.

Baseball is the only thing I can give you that might be worth something in your lives.

When he had gotten rid of his exuberance he sat down at once to write to his brother Hal about it, and also his forest-ranger friend, Dick Leslie, with whom he had spent an adventurous time the last summer.

Ken was absolutely powerless. His clothes were torn to tatters in a twinkling; they were soon torn completely off, leaving only his shoes and socks.