50 Baseball Quotes That Will Motivate You

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50 Best Baseball Quotes

1. “The nice guys are all over there, in seventh place.” – Leo Durocher

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2. “Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.” – Satchel Paige

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3. “If you’re not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he’ll be ready to take your job.” – Brooks Robinson

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4. “Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.” – Ted Williams

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5. “If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are greater.” – Ted Williams

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6. “No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.” – Ted Williams

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7. “You can’t be afraid to make errors! You can’t be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. ” – Lou Brock

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8. “If my uniform doesn’t get dirty, I haven’t done anything in the baseball game.” – Rickey Henderson

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9. “I’ve found in life the more you practice, the better you get.” – Ted Williams

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10. “There are three types of baseball players those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.” – Tommy Lasorda

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11. “I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.” – Roberto Clemente

12. “Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don’t move.” – Satchel Paige

13. “Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.” – Jackie Robinson

14. “Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.” – Yogi Berra

15. “I’d walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.” – Pete Rose

16. “Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.” – Leo Durocher

17. “Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.” – Yogi Berra

18. “People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” – Rogers Hornsby

19. “This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.” – Jackie Robinson

20. “For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.” – Willie Mays

21. “The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.” – Bryant Gumbel

22. “Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.” – Satchel Paige

23. “It ain’t like football. You can’t make up no trick plays.” – Yogi Berra

24. “I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That’s when you’ve got to be serious.” – Hank Aaron

25. “Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.” – Curt Schilling

26. “Deep down, it’s all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.” – Vernon D. Burns

27. “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda

28. “There may be people that have more talent than you, but there is no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.” – Derek Jeter

29. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson

30. “A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.” – Mickey Mantle

31. “There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.” – Casey Stengel

32. “Everybody makes mistakes, that’s why they put erasers on pencils.” – Tommy Lasorda

33. “Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.” – Pete Rose

34. “Baseball gives a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.” – Albert Goodwill Spalding

35. “Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.” – Hank Aaron

36. “I see great things in baseball. It’s our game the American game.” – Walt Whitman

37. “You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.” – Cal Ripken Jr

38. “Baseball is like driving, it’s the one who gets home safely that counts.” – Tommy Lasorda

39. “Slumps are like a soft bed. They’re easy to get into and hard to get out of.” – Johnny Bench

40. “My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it. As I realized years later, that is still the finest theory of hitting yet devised.” – Tommy Lasorda

41. “One of the greatest things about baseball is that you do not need much to play. All you need is a bat and a ball not even a glove and a whole lot of imagination.” – David Ortiz

42. “When you step into the batter’s box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.” – Pete Rose

43. “My motto was always to keep swinging.” – Hank Aaron

44. “What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.” – Willie Mays

45. “Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world.” – Bill Veeck

46. “After Jackie Robinson, the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson.” – Reggie Jackson

47. “There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither one of them works.” – Charlie Lau

48. “Playing baseball is not real life. It’s a fantasy world It’s a dream come true.” – Dale Murphy

49. “The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It’s the only thing I know.” – Mickey Mantle

50. “More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.” – Thomas Boswell

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