Baseball Quotes Quotes

“Ninety percent of this game is half mental.”
― Yogi Berra

“Sometimes are feats aren’t so fabulous, they’re just dubious—but either way, they’re fun to talk about.”
― Tucker Elliot

“General manager Frank Lane made his mark on the club by making several unpopular or unsuccessful trades. Among the guys he traded to other teams are Rocky Colavito, Roger Maris, Norm Cash, and … manager Joe Gordon? Uh, yes. Lane and Detroit GM Bill DeWitt traded managers—Joe Gordon for Jimmy Dykes. Lane’s tenure ended shortly thereafter, long before the damage he caused.”
― Tucker Elliot

“Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.”
― Leo Durocher, Nice Guys Finish Last First edition by Leo durocher (1975) Hardcover

“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!”
― Mallika Nawal, I'm a Woman & I'm on SALE

“God takes care of drunks and third basemen”
― Leo Durocher

“Baseball is also a game of balance.”
― Stephen King, Blockade Billy

“The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.”
― Satchel Paige

“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.”
― David James Duncan, The Brothers K

“Real ballplayers pass the stuffing by rolling it up in a ball and batting it across the table with a turkey leg.”
― Tom Swyers

“It ain't braggin if you can back it up...”
― Dizzy Dean, How It Feels To Be a Has-Been: And Other Essays from Baseball Greats in Their Own Words

“At thirty-three the Whammer still enjoyed exceptional eyesight. He saw the ball spin off Roy's fingertips and it reminded him of a white pigeon he had kept as a boy, that he would send into flight by flipping it into the air. The ball flew at him and he was conscious of its bird-form and white flapping wings, until it suddenly disappeared from view. He heard a noise like the bang of a firecracker at his feet and Sam had the ball in his mitt. Unable to believe his ears he heard Mercy intone a reluctant strike.”
― Bernard Malamud

“Some of ours is so crooked they can't lay in a birth only when the trains making a curve.”
― Ring Lardner, Lardner on Baseball

“Often, bumpy roads lead to beautiful places. And this is a beautiful place.”
― Davey Martinez

“There is no doubt at all in my mind that the old-time ballplayer was smarter than the modern ballplayer. Now the game is all power, lively balls, and shorter fences.”
― Sam Crawford, The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It

“Four out of five doctors prescribe baseball for whatever ails you. The fifth guy is a quack.”
― Tom Swyers

“A no-hitter secures a pitcher’s spot on an elite yet diverse list that embraces Hall of Famers, struggling journeymen, and wide-eyed rookies.”
― Dirk Lammers, Baseball's No-Hit Wonders: More Than a Century of Pitching's Greatest Feats

“Analyzing baseball yields many numbers of interest and value. Yet far and away- far, far and away- the most critical number in all of baseball is 3: the three outs that define an inning. Until the third out, anything is possible; after it, nothing is. [Eric Walker]”
― Michael Lewis

“I call 'em as I see 'em”
― baseball umps

“I grew up in a day and age where hitting .250 in any given season made you a god. It was a smaller game back then. You had to hit smart and run well. There was mind to it. Then they put in a jackrabbit ball and it became a thing of brawn. You had to pitch the seams off the goddam thing or knock it into the stands every game if you wanted to be anyone. The people want that action and maybe you can give it to them for a time. But your fame will not last. It's how you play the game day in and day out, through cold streaks and shit-hole road trips. You better enjoy every goddam bus and rain delay and asswipe motel and old loud-mouthed manager and drop to the minors. Because that's what this is. It ain't glory. It's a long, ugly haul. And at the end of the day you may be a hero or you may be a washed up never been. That's all.”
― Dan Johnson, Brea or Tar

“Bright eyed, bushy tailed and fresh faced. These kids were Lawrences and Robbies that hadn't been in the league long enough to mature into Larrys and Bobs. They still had that earnest, hopeful glow like someone who cared was watching. Fame and endorsement deals would start flooding in if they could just squeeze out a triple.”
― Dan Johnson, Brea or Tar

“Baseball builds more character than bible.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“I floated away into that omnipresent timelessness of baseball, where boys with a dream and long-expired Major Leaguers orbit forever on equal planes.”
― Greg Larson, Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir

“You don't ask the sun why you orbit, you just orbit. You let the gravitational waves of the baseball season pull you in and you surrender yourself, happily.”
― Greg Larson, Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir

“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.”
― Greg Larson, Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir

“From the first moment I started to uncover the infinite mysteries of baseball--like why players chose to wear certain numbers, what the brown stuff in players' mouths was, and just what the hell a balk entailed--I was hooked.”
― Greg Larson, Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir

“See what I mean?' Schmarzo said. 'This life fucks with you, man. I always say it's like scratching lottery tickets: when you have enough guys together playing the lottery--buying scratch-offs--of course one or two of them is gonna win big. It's inevitable. But they win and you're left sitting there scratching away. you throw your money and time away one dollar and one day at a time. But those guys won, right? Maybe I can too. So we keep coming back for more until we realize we're broke and out of time.' He leaned forward, elbows on his knees, and got to work staring another hole through the floor. 'That's what it's like to play single-A baseball.”
― Greg Larson, Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir

“Days during the baseball season don't start with M, T, W, F, or S. They only start with G or O: game day or off day.”
― Greg Larson, Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir

“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.”
― Greg Larson, Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir

“What makes a bad coach? They don't study the current live game that is playing to know what to do. They always study previous games. Come with a plan and no matter what. They stick to that plan. They are not checking if the plan will work on the current game or match.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos