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Quotes About Baseball
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Babe Ruth
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
― Babe Ruth
tags: baseball, perseverance, philosophy, sports 783 likes Like
Yogi Berra
“It ain't over 'til it's over.”
― Yogi Berra
tags: baseball, sports, truisms, yankees 225 likes Like
Babe Ruth
“Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!”
― Babe Ruth
tags: babe-ruth, baseball, cinderella-story, inspiration, motivation, quote, success 124 likes Like
I used to think Romeo and Juliet was the greatest love story ever written. But
“I used to think Romeo and Juliet was the greatest love story ever written. But now that I’m middle-aged, I know better. Oh, Romeo certainly thinks he loves his Juliet. Driven by hormones, he unquestionably lusts for her. But if he loves her, it’s a shallow love. You want proof?” Cagney didn’t wait for Dr. Victor to say yay or nay.

“Soon after meeting her for the first time, he realizes he forgot to ask her for her name. Can true love be founded upon such shallow acquaintance? I don’t think so. And at the end, when he thinks she’s dead, he finds no comfort in living out the remainder of his life within the paradigm of his love, at least keeping alive the memory of what they had briefly shared, even if it was no more than illusion, or more accurately, hormonal.

“Those of us watching events unfold from the darkness know she merely lies in slumber. But does he seek the reason for her life-like appearance? No. Instead he accuses Death of amorousness, convinced that the ‘lean abhorred monster’ endeavors to keep Juliet in her present state, her cheeks flushed, so that she might cater to his own dissolute desires. But does Romeo hold her in his arms one last time and feel the warmth of her blood still coursing through her veins? Does he pinch her to see if she might awaken? Hold a mirror to her nose to see if her breath fogs it? Once, twice, three times a ‘no.’”

Cagney sighed, listened to the leather creak as he shifted his weight in his chair.

“No,” he repeated. “His alleged love is so superficial and selfish that he seeks to escape the pain of loss by taking his own life. That’s not love, but obsessive infatuation. Had they wed—Juliet bearing many children, bonding, growing together, the masks of the star-struck teens they once were long ago cast away, basking in the comforting campfire of a love born of a lifetime together, not devoured by the raging forest fire of youth that consumes everything and leaves behind nothing—and she died of natural causes, would Romeo have been so moved to take his own life, or would he have grieved properly, for her loss and not just his own?”
― J. Conrad Guest, The Cobb Legacy
tags: baseball, detroit-tigers, humor, love, romance, ty-cobb 109 likes Like
Yogi Berra
“Okay you guys, pair up in threes!”
― Yogi Berra
tags: baseball, humor 107 likes Like
“Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.”
― Leo Durocher
tags: baseball 106 likes Like
David Halberstam
“[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.)”
― David Halberstam, Everything They Had: Sports Writing
tags: baseball, basketball, david-halberstam, julius-erving, professionalism, sports, work-ethic, writing 82 likes Like
Steve Shilstone
“The thing I write will be the thing I write.”
― Steve Shilstone
tags: baseball, quote, writing 73 likes Like
Hank Aaron
“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.”
― Hank Aaron
tags: baseball, golf, humor, sports 69 likes Like
“Ray. People will come, Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. "Of course, we won't mind if you look around", you'll say, "It's only $20 per person". They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and that could be again. Oh...people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.”
― James Earl Jones
tags: baseball, field-of-dreams 54 likes Like
Yogi Berra
“Its getting late early”
― Yogi Berra
tags: baseball, humor 54 likes Like
“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.”
― Tommy Lasorda
tags: baseball, life, winning 50 likes Like
“Athletes are born winners, there not born loosers, and the sooner you understand this, the faster you can take on a winning attitude and become sucessful in life.”
― Charles R. Sledge Jr.
tags: baseball, coaches, kids, parents, sports 47 likes Like
Erma Bombeck
“Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip”
― Erma Bombeck
tags: baseball, gossip 37 likes Like
“Well, I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
Crash Davis Bull Durham”
― Ron Shelton
tags: baseball 34 likes Like
W.P. Kinsella
“God what an outfield,' he says. 'What a left field.' He looks up at me, and I look down at him. 'This must be heaven,' he says.

No. It's Iowa,' I reply automatically. But then I feel the night rubbing softly against my face like cherry blossoms; look at the sleeping girl-child in my arms, her small hand curled around one of my fingers; think of the fierce warmth of the woman waiting for me in the house; inhale the fresh-cut grass small that seems locked in the air like permanent incense; and listen to the drone of the crowd, as below me Shoelss Joe Jackson tenses, watching the angle of the distant bat for a clue as to where the ball will be hit.

I think you're right, Joe,' I say, but softly enough not to disturb his concentration.”
― W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
tags: baseball, summer 33 likes Like
Frank Zappa
“The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.”
― Frank Zappa
tags: baseball, bassoon 33 likes Like
David James Duncan
“Sometimes a strikeout means that the slugger’s girlfriend just ran off with the UPS driver. Sometimes a muffed ground ball means that the shortstop’s baby daughter has a pain in her head that won’t go away. And handicapping is for amateur golfers, not ballplayers. Pitchers don’t ease off on the cleanup hitter because of the lumps just discovered in his wife’s breast. Baseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake.

Perhaps they are. I cherish a theory I once heard propounded by G.Q. Durham that professional baseball is inherently antiwar. The most overlooked cause of war, his theory runs, is that it’s so damned interesting. It takes hard effort, skill, love and a little luck to make times of peace consistently interesting. About all it takes to make war interesting is a life. The appeal of trying to kill others without being killed yourself, according to Gale, is that it brings suspense, terror, honor, disgrace, rage, tragedy, treachery and occasionally even heroism within range of guys who, in times of peace, might lead lives of unmitigated blandness. But baseball, he says, is one activity that is able to generate suspense and excitement on a national scale, just like war. And baseball can only be played in peace. Hence G.Q.’s thesis that pro ball-players—little as some of them may want to hear it—are basically just a bunch of unusually well-coordinated guys working hard and artfully to prevent wars, by making peace more interesting.”
― David James Duncan
tags: baseball, peace 31 likes Like
Chad Harbach
“Owen," Henry said excitedly, "I think Coach wants you to hit for Meccini."

Owen closed The Voyage of the Beagle, on which he had recently embarked. "Really?"

"Runners on first and second," Rick said. "I bet he wants you to bunt."

"What's the bunt sign?"

"Two tugs on the left earlobe," Henry told him. "But first he has to give the indicator, which is squeeze the belt. But if he goes to his cap with either hand or says your first name, that's the wipe-off, and then you have to wait and see whether--"

"Forget it," Owen said. "I'll just bunt.”
― Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
tags: baseball, humor 30 likes Like
Amit Ray
“Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
tags: awaken-within, awakened-mind, awakened-soul, awakening, baseball, basketball, batting, blossoming, captency, champion, champion-quotes, champions, champions-of-life, cricket, cricket-ball, cricket-quotes, cricket-strokes, cricketer, enlightenment, enlightenment-and-attitude, enlightenment-holiness, enlightenment-ideals, enlightenment-principles, enlightenment-quotes, fire, flowering, football, game, humor, ice-fishing, ice-skating, limits, love, motivation, perseverance, philosophy, skiing, snow-camping, snowboarding, soul, spark, spiritual, spirituality, sport, sports, sweaty, train, training, wrestling 29 likes Like
Jim Bouton
“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
tags: baseball, life 23 likes Like
Mickey Mantle
“If I had known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself!”
― Mickey Mantle
tags: baseball, greats, legends 22 likes Like
John Irving
“(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
tags: baseball, sports 22 likes Like
“They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.”
― Fred McMane
tags: baseball, drinking 18 likes Like
Barry Lyga
“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, Boy Toy
tags: baseball 17 likes Like
Tee Morris
“If there was magic in this world, it happened within sight of the three bases and home plate. All the gems in my world that decorated the walls and floors of dragons' lairs, the sword hilts of privileged princes, and crowns worn by emperors and kings, were nothing compared to the beauty and splendor of the diamond in Wrigley Stadium. It wasn't just a yard with dirt, chalk lines, bases, and a small hill in its center. Wrigley was a field of dreams. Dreams of eternal glory for the men who ran to the outfield, who took their respective bases, and prepared for battle against those who would dare enter their hallowed realm. Dreams for the kids in the stands, all wanting to don a uniform, kiss their moms goodbye, and wield their bats as enchanted weapons destined to knock the cover off the ball. And for the adults who had already selected their lot in life, Wrigley made the dreams of past innocence, lost wonder, and the promise that there was something inherently good still left in the world, come true.

Yeah, corny as hell. But all true.”
― Tee Morris, The Case of the Pitcher's Pendant: A Billibub Baddings Mystery
tags: baseball, dreams, magic 16 likes Like
Michael Lewis
“The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.”
― Michael Lewis, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
tags: baseball, humor, science 15 likes Like
Philip Roth
“Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more”
― Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint
tags: baseball 15 likes Like
Collette West
“He has the body of a professional athlete, chiseled to perfection in all the right places.”
― Collette West, Night Games
tags: baseball, contemporary, contemporary-romance, romance, sports, sports-romance 9 likes Like
Jerry Spinelli
“Vowels were something else. He didn't like them, and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed to be everywhere. Why, you could go through twenty words without bumping into some of the shyer consonants, but it seemed as if you couldn't tiptoe past a syllable without waking up a vowel. Consonants, you knew pretty much where they stood, but you could never trust a vowel. To the old pitcher, they were like his own best knuckle ball come back to haunt him. In, out, up, down - not even the pitcher, much much less the batter, knew which way it would break. He kept swinging and missing.”
― Jerry Spinelli