Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ty Cobb

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

Walt Whitman

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 these losses, and be a blessing to us.

Rogers Hornsby

Baseball is my life, the only thing I know and can talk about. My only interest.

Rogers Hornsby

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

Rogers Hornsby

I stare out the window and wait for spring,

Rogers Hornsby

I've always played hard. If that's rough and tough, I can't help it. I don't believe there's any such thing as a good loser. I wouldn't sit down and play a game of cards with you right now withing wanting to win. If I hadn't felt that way I wouldn't have got very far in baseball.

Rogers Hornsby

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

Rogers Hornsby

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

Satchel Paige

I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em.

Satchel Paige

The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.

Satchel Paige

Nobody likes the ball low and away, but that's where you're going to get it from me. I been pitching it there 50 years, away from them. That way they can't hurt you. You keep the ball in the park.

Satchel Paige

I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.

Satchel Paige

Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

Satchel Paige

NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

Satchel Paige

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

Sargent Shriver

I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team.

Waite Hoyt

Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them to say: God bless mommy, God bless daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth! He's upped daddy's paycheck by 15 to 40 percent!

Waite Hoyt

There was buried in Ruth humanitarianism beyond belief, an intelligence he was never given credit for, a childish desire to be over-virile, living up to credits given his home-run power - and yet a need for intimate affection and respect, and a feverish desire to play baseball, perform, act and live a life he didn't and couldn't take time to understand.

Wade Boggs

Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

Wade Boggs

In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

Young Jeezy

Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.

Yann Martel

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

Wynton Marsalis

Benny Goodman's band was integrated before baseball. Even before it was physically integrated, music was integrated. Everyone listened to Armstrong and Ellington. The 20s was called the Jazz Age. It's part of being American.

Willie Stargell

My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.

Willie Stargell

Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.

Willie Stargell

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

Willie Stargell

It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.

Willie Stargell

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

Willie Stargell

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

William Petersen

I do the work just because I enjoy it on the day, working with the guys. For me, it's like going to play a game of baseball: you've got your teammates, you get to do something that's fun, hopefully, and whatever happens with that stuff is in the cosmos someplace.

Robert Moog

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

Robert Morley

I have never willingly chased a ball.

Robert Kennedy

Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it was on a battlefield or a baseball diamond, in a speech or fighting for a cause, that they had courage that they would stand up, that they could be counted on.