Yogi Berra is remembered as much for his quirky comments as for his baseball career.
2. Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. —George Will, Journalist and Author
9. "You're Killing Me, Smalls!" —Famous Movie Quote from The Sandlot
20. A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. —Robert Earl Wilson
30. The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second greatest feeling is to lose a major league game. —Chuck Tanner
1. From the "articulate" Mr. Berra whose famous line was, "The game of baseball isn't over until it's over." That has morphed into, "It ain't over till it's over."
Enjoy the other 29 quotations about baseball.
(Yogi Berra by Unknown Photographer. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.)3. This is like Deja vu all over again. —Yogi Berra
4. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. —Babe Ruth
5. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps. —Willie Mays
6. Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is. —Bullet Bob Feller
7. I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball. —Pete Rose
8. I could have played baseball another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that. —George Brett
10. I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. —Roberto Clemente
11. People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. —Rogers Hornsby
12. It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing your whole life." —Mickey Mantle
13. I see great things in baseball. It's our game, the American game. It will repair our losses and be a blessing to us all. —Famous Movie Quote from Bull Durham
14. Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life. —American Sportscaster, Ernie Harwell
15. "There's no crying in baseball!" —Famous Movie Quote from A League of Their Own
16. If you have a bad day in baseball and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more. —Sammy Sosa
17. When you start the game, they don't say, "Work Ball!" They say, "Play ball!" —Willie Stargell
18. Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too. —Yogi Berra
19. A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. —Jackie Robinson
21. When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base any way I could, whether by hitting or getting hit. —Shoeless Joe Jackson
22. There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all. —Lou Gehrig
23. There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened. —Tommy Lasorda
24. 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
25. As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy. —Garth Brooks, Country Music Icon
26. I never had a job. I just always played baseball. —Satchel Paige
27. Baseball is a drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. —Joe Garagiola, former ball player and author of Baseball Is A Funny Game
28. "Going to need a visa to catch this one." Famous Movie Quote from Major League, uttered by Bob Uecker, former professional ball player, who portrayed a play-by-play announcer in the movie. You may have heard other sportscasters "borrow" that line.
29. Baseball is an American icon. It is the Statue of Liberty, the bald eagle, In God We Trust, Mount Rushmore, ice cream, apple pie, hot dogs, and rally monkeys. Baseball is America. —Victor Baltov, Jr., author of Baseball Is America
Takeaway Truth
I purposely put the Chuck Tanner quote last. Maybe it will bring a little comfort to my fellow Houston Astro fans since our team lost Game 1 to the Braves. Go, Astros! Play ball.
Ok, #20 is so, so, so true! I loved this whole post. #18 is pretty great, of course, and I find myself doing the same in #11. I live for the day when catchers and pitchers report. Loved this post! (And thank God we won Game 2! Go ASTROS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDelete*LOL* I didn't realize we had so much in common. Glad you loved the post. I can hardly stand the suspense when the Astros are playing catch-up. Wanted to scream in agony during Game 1 then wanted to scream with joy after Game 2. On pins and needles waiting for Game 3. Go Astros!!!!!
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