Baseball Quotes

"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all."
-Earl Weaver

"Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first."
-Frederick B. Wilcox

"A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz."
-Humphrey Bogart

"Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things."
-Robert Frost

"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."
-Tommy Lasorda

"Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player."
-Unknown

"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."
-Walt Whitman

"Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball."
-Woodie Held

"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game."
-Walt Whitman

"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging."
-Hank Aaron

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
-Pete Rose