2,899 Quotes About Baseball

We try to take it from one at-bat to the next, ya know it’s easier said than done, but all put together it looks good in the end.

Why did the two most important things in her life have to require her attention at exactly the same time?

Baseball taught me how to love.The game made sense to me, and spending time with it felt more like an obsessive relationship than a simple want.

You realize that the sleeping stadium is more beautiful at night, with the unshakable quietus rooting it to the earth. It rests like a graveyard--empty but throbbing all at once. With the pollution of light extinguished, maybe you even see the Dog Star blinking back at you.

The questions came...hurling at him...like the balls from a baseball pitching machine...just one after the other without a care or concern of where they went - but he couldn't hit them, he didn't have a baseball bat - he only had a toothpick!

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.

I have to absorb the new season like sunlight, letting it turn my winter skin pink and then brown. I must stuff myself with lore and statistics until my fingers ooze balm.

You're only as good as your next home run.

If I had known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself!