Quotes on Baseball And Life

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.