(3013 quotes found)
“Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.”
Al Spalding
“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.”
Yogi Berra
“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
“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
“If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it. But if you do, do it right.”
Tom Seaver
“People think baseball players make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.”
Pete Incaviglia
“Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.”
Al Lopez
“If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.”
Mickey Spillane
“Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.”
Frank Robinson
“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.”
Hank Aaron