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

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

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.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

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.

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

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

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.

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.