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Baseball Quotes

On the game, the season, and staying good at it.

These lines cover both sides of loving baseball - a wry joke about the sport being kinder once playing stopped, and the assumption that October baseball was simply a Yankees given. Related: Game.

I would say I was into two sports as a kid: basketball and baseball.

Quotes by Adam Silver

I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.

Quotes by Action Bronson

That's what it's all about - postseason baseball.

Quotes by Aaron Judge

The ups and downs, that's baseball life. That's what I live for, play for.

Quotes by Aaron Judge

Always Quotes

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

Quotes by A. Bartlett Giamatti

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

Quotes by A. Bartlett Giamatti

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

Quotes by A. Bartlett Giamatti

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

Quotes by A. Bartlett Giamatti

Baseball is the biggest sport in Japan, then soccer, and basketball is... People don't really care about basketball.

Quotes by Yuta Watanabe

Football Quotes

Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.

Quotes by Yogi Berra

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

Quotes by Yogi Berra

Acting was something fun that my dad did, but baseball is what he really wanted to do.

Quotes by Wyatt Russell

No one wants to watch anybody play baseball in a movie. What is interesting is what baseball means or sports in general means to those people doing it.

Quotes by Wyatt Russell

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

Quotes by Willie Mays

Game Quotes

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

Quotes by Willie Mays

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

Quotes by Willie Mays

That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.

Quotes by Willie Mays

I was doing what I love to do: play baseball. Not going to complain about that.

Quotes by Willie McCovey

My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.

Quotes by Willie Stargell

Like Quotes

In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to play 18.

Quotes by Willie Geist

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a witty quote about baseball being 'good' once someone stopped trying to play it?
Yes: "Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it." It's a self-deprecating line about finding more success off the field.
Is there a quote about the Yankees and October baseball?
Yes: "You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October." It reflects on the team's long-standing playoff expectations.
Is there a quote ranking someone's baseball priorities?
Yes: "My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles." It puts the sport's overall health above any one team or person.
Is there a quote about the toughest thing to do in baseball?
Yes: "Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat." It's about how hard it is to sustain success once you've achieved it.
Where can I find more sports-related quotes?
Try Football quotes or Game quotes for related sports themes.

One quote ranks loyalties in order, the sport itself first, a favorite team second. For more on sport and competition, see Football and Like.