Quotes on Famous Baseball

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

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.

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

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.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

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

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

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

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

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.