The Baseball Playoffs Are Here! Let’s Read Some Famous Baseball Quotes Of The Past

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, Ball Four, 1970

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base. – Dave Barry

People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ~Rogers Hornsby

I’m convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. ~Tom Clark

A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores. ~M*A*S*H, Klinger, “Bug-Out,” 1976

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

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. ~Roy Campanella

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. ~Paul Gallico

There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem — once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. ~Al Gallagher, 1971

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. ~Bob Lemon

What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game…. There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife’s fidelity and his mother’s respectability. ~George Bernard Shaw

Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living. ~Phil Linz

When they start the game, they don’t yell, “Work ball.” They say, “Play ball.” ~Willie Stargell, 1981

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball — you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that. ~Nomar Garciaparra

I don’t want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. ~Rogers Hornsby

Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa. ~Bob Veale, 1966

Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don’t like it when someone’s stuffing it into you by the gallon. That’s what it feels like when Nolan Ryan’s thrown balls by you. ~Reggie Jackson

If a horse can’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it. ~Dick Allen, on artificial turf, 1970

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. ~Bryant Gumbel, 1981

There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. ~Tallulah Bankhead

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. ~Bill Veeck

Why does everybody stand up and sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” when they’re already there? ~Larry Anderson