Inspirational Baseball Quotes

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 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

Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.
- Dale Murphy

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
- Derek Jeter

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

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball.
- James Patrick Murray

Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man’s hand. Pick it up, and it instantly suggests its purpose; it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance — thrown hard and with precision.
- Roger Angell

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

Baseball is a man maker.
- Al Spalding

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. The home plate doesn’t move.
- Satchel Paige

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.
- George Frederick Will

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
- Casey Stengel

Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.
- Tommy Henrich

Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
- Babe Ruth

The older pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub. He doesn’t try to do it all himself.
- Burleigh Arland Grimes

I could have played baseball another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.
- George Brett

Well, it took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits in baseball, and I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
- Hank Aaron

You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys.
- Dale Long