Best 2491 quotes in «baseball quotes» category

You can be distracted by your love life, by the baseball game, movies, by the nonsense. "Can I get my kid into this private school? Can I get this girl to go out with me Saturday night? Am I going to get the promotion in my office?" All this stuff, but in the end the universe burns out. So I think it's completely meaningless.

You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don't think about baseball. You don't think about anything. It's just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway.

You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.

You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event ,and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.

You can sum up the game of baseball in one word: 'You never know.'

You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys.

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

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. You can only challenge it.

You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different.

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.

You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!

You can't make chicken salad out of chicken feathers

You can't think and hit the ball at the same time.

You can't win them all but you can try.

You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

You'd got a baseball game, or a football game, basketball game, "USA! USA! USA!" Hey, calm down! Got a little German on it, don't you think?

You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame.

You didn't have to say it was gone. It was gone before it got outta here. It was going that fast.

You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.

You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in a heap, puking on the roadside. It's the physical brutality of climbing Mount Everest without the great view from the top of the world. What kind of person keeps coming back for more of that?

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits.

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

You get what you earn.

You have only two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and the right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.

You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe.

You just cant predict baseball

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

You know how in sports baseball players, they hit home runs. Football players, they throw and they score touchdowns. I get to do something that very few people get to do - I get to touch the human brain, and every day I get to hit home runs, I get to score touchdowns.

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

You know how, when you fly from coast to coast on a really clear day, looking down from many miles up, you can see the little baseball diamonds everywhere? And every time I see a baseball diamond my heart goes out to it. And I think somewhere down there- I don't see any houses, I can hardly see any roads- but I know that people down there are playing the game we all love.

You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.

You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.

You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody

You know what I love best about baseball? The pine tar, the resin, the grass, the dirt - and that's just in the hot-dogs.

You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.