Baseball Quotes and Sayings 2011

Baseball Quotes and Sayings 2011

Some of the funniest baseball quotes.

I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen. ~Bob Lemon, 1981

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? ~Jim Bouton, 1988



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


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


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

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


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

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



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

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball." ~Willie Stargell, 1981


Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997

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



This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings. ~Bill Veeck
A baseball park is the one place where a man's wife doesn't mind his getting excited over somebody else's curves. ~Brendan Francis

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays. ~Yogi Berra

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
~ Ernie Banks

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. ~George F. Will, Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball, 1990


I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it. ~Sandy Koufax


Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing. ~Warren Spahn
Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there?
~Larry Anderson

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
~ George Bernard


Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.
~ Mary McGrory


Baseball would be a better game if more third basemen got hit in the mouth by line drivers.
~ Dan Jenkins


A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time. ~William C. Feather


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