50 Baseball Quotes That Never Strike Out
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Motivational Baseball Quotes
- “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Babe Ruth
- “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
- “It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.” – Yogi Berra
- “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda
- “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
- “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King
- “Don’t let the pressure exceed the pleasure.” – Joe Maddon
- “Play like a champion today.” – Notre Dame
- “A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.” – Joe Torre
Classic Baseball Wisdom
- “Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.” – Yogi Berra
- “There are only two seasons – winter and baseball.” – Bill Veeck
- “You can’t hit what you can’t see.” – Walter Johnson
- “That’s the beautiful thing about baseball. You can be any size and still succeed.” – Cal Ripken Jr.
- “Baseball is like church. Many attend, but few understand.” – Leo Durocher
- “You can’t sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You’ve got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That’s why baseball is the greatest game of them all.” – Earl Weaver
- “There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.” – Lou Gehrig
- “Baseball teaches you patience and resilience. You can fail 7 out of 10 times and still be great.”
- “The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.” – Unknown
- “It ain’t over till it’s over.” – Yogi Berra
Baseball Quotes for Athletes
- “Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.”
- “Success is not owned. It’s leased—and rent is due every day.”
- “Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle.”
- “You don’t inspire your teammates by showing them how amazing you are. You inspire them by showing them how amazing they are.”
- “Baseball is a game of inches, but life is a game of attitude.”
- “Practice like you’ve never won. Play like you’ve never lost.”
- “Train hard, hit harder.”
- “If you want to play the game, you have to earn your spot.”
- “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin
- “Winning takes talent. To repeat takes character.” – John Wooden
Funny Baseball Quotes That Still Hit the Mark
- “Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hitting.” – Yogi Berra
- “They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games.” – Fred McMane
- “I don’t want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to chase it.” – Rogers Hornsby
- “The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.” – Yogi Berra
- “Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.” – Casey Stengel
- “Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, and a double play is one of the most beautiful things in the world.”
- “Why does everybody stand up and sing ‘Take Me Out to the Ballgame’ when they’re already there?” – Larry Anderson
- “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” – Yogi Berra
- “You can't think and hit at the same time.” – Yogi Berra
- “I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat, and if it keeps up, I change bats.” – Yogi Berra
Legendary Baseball Quotes from Hall of Famers
- “Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” – Lou Gehrig
- “Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.” – The Sandlot
- “In baseball and in life, all the important things happen at home.”
- “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” – Jackie Robinson
- “You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.” – Roy Campanella
- “I love baseball. The game allowed me to be myself, to be everything I am.” – Reggie Jackson
- “There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.” – Derek Jeter
- “You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.” – Roy Campanella
- “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
- “When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.” – Vance Law
