Favorite Baseball Quotes
As of last week, players have reported to Major League Baseball Spring Training sites in Florida and Arizona, exhibition games have begun, and soon the season will begin. That means it is time for my favorite baseball quotes:
- Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth.
- People ask me what I do in the winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” – Rogers Hornsby
- “There’s no crying in baseball!” – A League of Their Own
- “There are only two seasons: winter and baseball.” – Bill Veeck, Jr.
- “Baseball is 90% mental, and the other half is physical.” — Yogi Berra
- “I’ve tried ’em all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.” – Bull Durham”
- The one constant through all the years . . .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. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again.” –Field of Dreams
- “You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.” Satchel Paige.
- “It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time.” A. Bartlett Giamatti, The Green Fields of the Mind.
- “It’s a mere moment in a man’s life between an All-Star Game and an Old-Timers Game.” Vin Scully
- “That’s the way baseball go!” Ron Washington
- “Don’t die on third.” My High School Baseball Coach, LeRoy Ashmore
- “If anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.” 2 Timothy 2:5