Quotes on Inspirational Baseball

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

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

Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's hand. Pick it up and it instantly suggests its purpose; it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance - thrown hard and with precision.

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.

God, I hope I wear this jersey forever.

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.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

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

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.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

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.

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.

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.