(3018 quotes found)
“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
“Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.”
Ty Cobb
“I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.”
“There is but one game and that game is baseball.”
John McGraw
“Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.”
Babe Ruth
“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
“I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.”
George Brett
“Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.”
Al Spalding
“After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.”
Branch Rickey
“Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.”
Bo Jackson
