Quotes on Great Baseball

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.'

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

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

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

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.

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

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

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.

If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.

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

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

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

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

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

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.