A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. Earl Wilson
Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical. Yogi Berra
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 is a man on base. Dave Barry
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game. Jacques Barzun
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
All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill. Babe Ruth
I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game. It will take our people out of doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair those losses, and be a blessing to us. Walt Whitman
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets. Yogi Berra
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. Bill Veeck
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people. Bill Veeck
There are only two seasons – winter and baseball. Bill Veeck
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings. Bill Veeck
Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width. Bill Veeck
As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy. Babe Ruth
How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball…The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can. Babe Ruth
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. Babe Ruth
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. Babe Ruth
I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands. Babe Ruth
If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. Babe Ruth
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal. George F Will
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