All About Baseball

 

“If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.” Phyllis Diller

• “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

• “So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.” Yogi Berra

• “Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.” George Will

• “Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.” Frank Robinson

• “A man once told me to walk with the Lord. I'd rather walk with the bases loaded.” Ken Singleton

• “The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.” Casey Stengel

• “I'd walk through h_ _ _ in a gasoline suit to play baseball.” Pete Rose

• “If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.” Babe Ruth

• “Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster.” Joe Adcock

• “He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.” Yogi Berra

• “Baseball is like church. Many attend, but few understand.” Leo Durocher

• “Baseball is dull only to dull minds.” Red Barber

• “Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.” Tim McCarver

• “Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.” Yogi Berra

• “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

• “Being with a woman at night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.” Casey Stengel.

• “You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end, it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.” Jim Bouton

• “The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.” Bryant Gumbel

• “They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ballgames.” Casey Stengel

• “Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.” Yogi Berra

• “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.

• “You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.” Cal Ripkin Jr.