In honor of the start of the MLB Baseball season on Wednesday, I present to you my top 25 Baseball Quotes.
1. It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life. ~Mickey Mantle
2. You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ~Jim Bouton
3. Hello again, everybody. It’s a bee-yooo-tiful day for baseball. Holy Cow! ~Harry Caray
4. Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. ~Ted Williams
5. 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
6. In baseball, you don’t know nothin’ ~Yogi Berra
7. In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100 percent dedication, you won’t be able to do this. ~Willie Mays
8. I’m never satisfied. I can’t stand satisfaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection. ~Mike Schmidt
9. A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. ~Jackie Robinson
10. I’d walk through hell in a gasoline suit to keep playing baseball. ~Pete Rose
11. Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you. ~Satchel Paige
12. The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime. ~Babe Ruth
13. Let’s play two. ~Ernie Banks
14. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. ~Lou Gehrig
15. Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is. ~Bob Feller
16. 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. ~Nolan Ryan
17. Any time you think you have the game conquered the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose. ~Mike Schmidt
18. Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common. ~Satchel Paige
19. You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be — in baseball and in life. ~Pete Rose
20. Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants to quit when he’s ahead. ~Jackie Robinson
21. Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game. ~Ted Williams
22. The game’s isn’t over until it’s over. ~Yogi Berra
23. 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. ~Ted Williams
24. Hitting is better than sex. ~Reggie Jackson
25. Baseball is dull only to dull minds. ~Red Barber
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