Quotes by Baseball Players - Page 2

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Willie Mays
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
Money and women. They're the two strongest things in the world. There are things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.
Satchel Paige
All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks will say "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."
Ted Williams
When you get hungry enough you find yourself speaking Spanish pretty well.
Josh Gibson
Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.
Catfish Hunter
When asked what he would do if he found a million dollars: "I would try to find the person that lost it and if he was poor - I'd give it back."
Yogi Berra
Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.
Don Sutton
In baseball you don't know nothing.
Yogi Berra
What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew.
Bobby Murcer
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass " Dad would reply. "We're raising boys."
Harmon Killebrew
You can't get rich sitting on the bench.
Phil Linz
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
The game isn't over until it's over.
Yogi Berra
Most ball games are lost not won.
Casey Stengel
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bull pen.
Bob Lemon
Toots Shore's restaurant is so crowded nobody goes there anymore.
Yogi Berra
Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
Vernon Law
Find the grain of truth in criticism - chew it and swallow it.
Don Sutton
When his enthusiasm goes he's through as a player.
Pete Rose
1. If your stomach disputes you lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. 2. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. 3. Go very lightly on the vices such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful.
Satchel Paige
Some days you tame the tiger. And some days the tiger has you for lunch.
Tug McGraw
If you think too long you think wrong.
Jim Kaat
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people you would be perfectly comfortable.
Bobby Bragan
The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell if experience was that important we'd never have anybody walking on the moon.
Doug Rader
You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid he's stupid.
Joe Torre
There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues but... they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven't got the guts to make the climb.
Cookie Lavagetto
Get in front of the ball you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for young man.
John McGraw
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
When I come into a game in the bottom of the ninth bases loaded no one out and a one-run lead ... it takes people off my mind.
Tug McGraw
Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter.
Satchel Paige
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Satchel Paige
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
Christy Mathewson
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
Yogi Berra
No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.
Tommy Lasorda
It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth
I mulled over what he had told me as I savored the Scotch. Not bad, really — like a beer that’s been in a brawl.
David Justice
The reporter asked, "why did you play so hard.""Because there might have been somebody in the stands today who'd never seen my play before, and might never see me again"-Joe DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio
One of the supreme paradoxes of baseball, and all sports, is that the harder you try to throw a pitch or hit a ball or accomplish something, the smaller your chances are for success. You get the best results not when you apply superhuman effort but when you let the game flow organically and allow yourself to be fully present. You'll often hear scouts say of a great prospect, "The game comes slow to him." It mean the prospect is skilled and poised enough to let the game unfold in its own time, paying no attention to the angst or urgency or doubt, funnelling all awareness to the athletic task at hand.
R.A. Dickey
Slumps are like a soft bed. They are easy to get into and hard to get out of.
Johnny Bench
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
Joe Garagiola
I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.
Hank Aaron
I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
Leo Durocher
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
You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.
Yogi Berra
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Jim Bouton
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game
Babe Ruth
It ain't over 'til it's over.
Yogi Berra
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron
A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.
Jackie Robinson
As history of any kind will tell us, when human beings get an opportunity to express their individual selves, a few selves will go completely over the top.
Doug Glanville
To guess is no good, but to anticipate is GREAT.
Filipe Alou
Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God's Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not accept Christ; whenever a day comes when I can see men and women coming down the aisles without joy in my heart, I'll quit preaching.
Billy Sunday