Quotes by Baseball Players

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

Yogi Berra

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.

Tommy Lasorda

I was playing it like Willie Wilson but I forgot that I'm in Clint Hurdle's body.

Clint Hurdle

He (Kris Medlin) has a communication with a force in pitching that most of us can’t talk to. It’s an awareness; it’s a sixth sense. When he steps in and stares in to that catcher, that little man on his shoulder’s going to take over and tell him what to do. And he’s done it well.

Don Sutton

If you don't throw it they can't hit it.

Lefty Gomez

They X-rayed my head and found nothing.

Dizzy Dean

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Babe Ruth

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bull pen.

Bob Lemon

You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.

Satchel Paige

If you are swept off your feet it's time to get on your knees.

Fred Beck

A homer a day will boost my pay.

Josh Gibson

Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!

Babe Ruth

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Yogi Berra

Listen, I'm against sin. I'll kick it as long as I've got a foot, I'll fight it as long as I've got a fist, I've butt it as long as I've got a head, and I'll bite it as long as I've got a tooth. And when I'm old, fistless, footless, and toothless, I'll gum it till I go home to glory and it goes home to perdition.

Billy Sunday

To guess is no good, but to anticipate is GREAT.

Filipe Alou

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

Yogi Berra

The body manifests what the mind harbors.

Jerry Augustine

In our day when a pitcher got into trouble in a game instead of taking him out our manager would leave him in and tell him to pitch his way out of trouble.

Cy Young

When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day

Sam Ewing

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.

Willie Mays

it was so hard to see what the future held because to perform at this game, you have to be “in the mud,” obsessed with the task at hand. Perspective is neutralized, stunted so that you can capture only the most relevant, time-sensitive data that will determine how to approach your opponent that day. Then you look up and realize your 20-year career has been a collection of days where you couldn’t see tomorrow.

Doug Glanville

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

Tommy Lasorda

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

Warren Spahn

Trying to get a fast ball past Hank Aaron is like trying to get the sun past a rooster.

Curt Simmons

Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter.

Satchel Paige

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Babe Ruth

Being Jesus means that we go through life embracing it all fully and feeling it all deeply. That we don’t hide and try to protect ourselves. That we live. That we show up. That we laugh. That we cry. That we hurt. That we heal. That we care. That we love. And then, that we wake up the next morning and sign up for it all over again.

Jim Palmer

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.

Satchel Paige

When you get hungry enough you find yourself speaking Spanish pretty well.

Josh Gibson

He's one of those Christmas Eve guys. There are people like that. . . every day in their lives is Christmas Eve.

Joe Garagiola

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.

George Brett