Quotes by Baseball Players

(Airplanes) may kill you but they ain't likely to hurt you.
Satchel Paige
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
Leo Durocher
Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.
Satchel Paige
The future is much like the present only longer.
Dan Quisenberry
I want to thank everybody who made this day necessary.
Yogi Berra
If you lose you're going to be fired and if you win you only put off the day you're going to be fired.
Leo Durocher
There are three types of baseball players-those who make it happen those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happened.
Tommy Lasorda
Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing you can't ever stop.
Pete Rose
Most ball games are lost not won.
Casey Stengel
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Willie Mays
There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues but they never make it they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven't got the guts to make the climb.
Cookie Lavagetto
Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat.
Ralph Kiner
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
Ty Cobb
Your brain commands your body to "Run forward! Bend! Scoop up the ball! Peg it to the infield!" Then your body says "Who me?"
Joe DiMaggio
Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.
Yogi Berra
The game isn't over until it's over.
Yogi Berra
Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.
Casey Stengel
Ninety per cent of this game is half-mental.
Yogi Berra
I want you all to line up in alphabetical order according to your size.
Casey Stengel
Slumps in life are like soft beds. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.
Johnny Bench
They X-rayed my head and found nothing.
Dizzy Dean
Catching a fly ball is a pleasure but knowing what to do with it is a business.
Tommy Henrich
Trying to get a fast ball past Hank Aaron is like trying to get the sun past a rooster.
Curt Simmons
You can't think and hit at the same time.
Yogi Berra
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
Warren Spahn
If you don't throw it they can't hit it.
Lefty Gomez
It's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit it square.
Pete Rose
There are only five things you can do in baseball: run throw catch hit and hit with power.
Leo Durocher
I just take my three swings and go sit on the bench. I don't ever want to mess up my swing.
Dick Allen
Do for yourself or do without.
Gaylord Perry
I was playing it like Willie Wilson but I forgot that I'm in Clint Hurdle's body.
Clint Hurdle
Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.
Christy Mathewson
Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.
Casey Stengel
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
If you are swept off your feet it's time to get on your knees.
Fred Beck
I'll just hit the dry side of the ball.
Stan Musial
A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you. He makes you get more out of yourself. And once you learn how good you really are you never settle for playing anything less than your very best.
Reggie Jackson
The body manifests what the mind harbors.
Jerry Augustine
I'll take any way to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy I'll go in as a batboy.
Phil Rizzuto
Pitching is the art of instilling fear by making a man flinch.
Sandy Koufax
You decide you'll wait for your pitch. Then as the ball starts toward the plate you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. And then you realize that the ball that went past you for a strike was your pitch.
Bobby Murcer
A homer a day will boost my pay.
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
Some days you tame the tiger. And some days the tiger has you for lunch.
Tug McGraw
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Yogi Berra
When you're a professional you come back no matter what happened the day before.
Billy Martin
It ain't over 'til it's over.
Yogi Berra
You give ioo percent in the first half of the game and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left.
Yogi Berra
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
Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.
Christy Mathewson
Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.
Casey Stengel
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
If you are swept off your feet it's time to get on your knees.
Fred Beck
I'll just hit the dry side of the ball.
Stan Musial
A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you. He makes you get more out of yourself. And once you learn how good you really are you never settle for playing anything less than your very best.
Reggie Jackson
The body manifests what the mind harbors.
Jerry Augustine
Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.
Yogi Berra
I'll take any way to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy I'll go in as a batboy.
Phil Rizzuto
Pitching is the art of instilling fear by making a man flinch.
Sandy Koufax
You decide you'll wait for your pitch. Then as the ball starts toward the plate you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. And then you realize that the ball that went past you for a strike was your pitch.
Bobby Murcer