There is an old Scottish proverb that says, 'I am wounded but I am not slain. I shall lay me down and bleed a while, then I shall rise and fight again.' That should be the feeling of all of the Yankees. - Owner George Steinbrenner (after losing the ALDS in 2002)
All I want out of life, is that when I walk down the street folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived." - Ted Williams
I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. - Tom Clark
A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz. - Humphrey Bogart
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. - Bryant Gumbel
If a woman has to chose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. - Dave Barry
Life is like a baseball game. When you think a fastball is coming, You gotta be ready to hit the curve. - Jaja Q.
Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world where you can catch them. - Johnny Vander Meer
Baseball is dull only to dull minds. - Red Smith
It's a mere moment in a man's life between the all-star game and an old timer's game. - Vin Scully
Here is one place where caste is lost. Ragamuffins and velvet- breeched, white-collar boys stand in that equality which augurs well for the future of the stars and stripes. Dainty clothes are no bar to the game if their owner is not afraid to soil them. - Zane Grey
Every player, in his secret heart, wants to manage someday. Every fan, in the privacy of his mind, already does. - Leonard Koppett
They expect an umpire to be perfect on opening day and to improve as the season goes on. - Nestor Chylak
If a man can beat you, walk him. - Leroy Robert (Satchel) Paige
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. - Babe Ruth
Hitting is 50% above the shoulders. - Ted Williams
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing. - Warren Spahn
Fundamentals are the most valuable tools a player can possess. Bunt the ball into the ground. Hit the cutoff man. Take the extra base. Learn the fundamentals. - Dick Williams
A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage. - Pete Rose
Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching. - Ferguson Jenkins
Good fielding and pitching, without hitting, or vice versa, is like Ben Franklin's half pair of scissors - ineffectual. - Moe Berg
The pitcher has to throw a strike sooner or later, so why not hit the pitch you want to hit and not the one he wants you to hit? - Johnny Mize
Players who commit errors need reassurance from the pitcher, who must harbor no grudges. - Roger Craig
Control is what kept me in the big leagues for twenty-two years. - Cy Young
Playing without the fundamentals is like eating without a knife and fork. You make a mess. - Dick Williams
You can't think and hit at the same time. - Yogi Berra
When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball. - Pete Rose
The best possible thing in baseball is winning the World Series. The second best thing is losing the World Series. - Tommy Lasorda
Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too. - Branch Rickey
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away. - Tommy Lasorda
Pitch within yourself. - Tom Seaver
If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it. - Ted Williams
Be on time. Bust your butt. Play smart. And have some laughs along the way. - Whitey Herzog
Most one-run games are lost, not won. - Gene Mauch
It takes pitching, hitting and defense. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable. - Joe Garagiola
The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends. - Tommy Lasorda
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possible be in baseball and in life. - Pete Rose
Nobody ever said, "Work ball!" They say, "Play ball!" To me, that means having fun. - Willie Stargell
I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation. - Leroy Robert (Satchel) Paige
Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game. - Edward Abbey
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. - Walt Whitman
It (baseball) is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions. - Art Rust
Next to religion, baseball has furnished a greater impact on American life than any other institution. - Herbert Hoover
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. - Yogi Berra
Baseball is what gets inside you, it lights you up, its supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard everyone would do it. The HARD is what makes it great. - A League of Their Own
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 goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all. - Earl Weaver
Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young. - Roger Angell
When you think about it, a home run is a mistake. The idea is to hit the ball hard, on a line, so the defense can't react to it. Hit it high in the air, which is how most home runs are hit, and most of the time it will be caught. It's a mistake. - Matt Williams
One thing anyone can go through is a slump. Unless you're Greg Maddux, it's going to happen to everybody. - Mike Piazza
Hello again, everybody. It's a bee-yooo-tiful day for baseball. - Harry Caray
I think a baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment. - Lowell Cohn
Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved. - Red Smith
Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal in 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
Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run. - Branch Rickey
The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever. Some seem to. - Herb Caen
The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every game. - Gabe Paul
Love America and hate baseball? Hate America and love baseball? Neither is possible, except in the abstract. - John Krich
One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something. - Nolan Ryan
I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to keep playing baseball. - Pete Rose
No one can stop a home run. No one can understand what it really is, unless you have felt it in your own hands and body.... As the ball makes its high, long arc beyond the playing field, the diamond and the stands suddenly belong to one man. In that brief, brief time, you are free of all demands an complications. - Sadaharu Oh
How hard is hitting? You ever walk into a pitch-black room full of furniture that you've never been in before and try to walk though it without bumping into anything? Well, it's harder than that. - Ted Kluszewski
The greatest thrill in the world is to end the game with a home run and watch everybody else walk off the field while you're running the bases on air. - Al Rosen
You don't save pitchers for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain. - Leo Durocher
It's no fun throwing fastballs to guys who can't hit them. The real challenge is getting them out on stuff they can hit. - Sam McDowell
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen. - Bob Lemon
Baseball is like a poker game, nobody wants to quit when he's losing: nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead. - Jackie Robinson
Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbers go for base hits. It's an unfair game. - Rod Kanehl
Any time you think you have the game conquered the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose. - Mike Schmidt
When we lost I couldn't sleep at night. When we win I can't sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling better. - Joe Torre
A ballplayer has two reputations, one with the other players and one with the fans. The first is based on ability. The second the newspapers gives him. - Johnny Evers
Fans don't boo nobodies. - Reggie Jackson
The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game. - Glenn Dickey
With those who don't give a damn about baseball I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them. - Art Hill
The majority of American males put themselves to sleep by striking out the batting order of the New York Yankees. - James Thurber
You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to Run forward! Bend! Scoop up the ball! Peg it to first! Then your body says who me? - Joe DiMaggio
I'm throwing twice as hard as I ever did. It's just not getting there as fast. - Lefty Gomez
It's a mere moment in a man's life between the all-star game and the old-timer's game. - Vin Scully
I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive. - Roberto Clemente
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
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. -Vince Lombardi
You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen. -Joe DiMaggio, on Opening Day
Slump ? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hittin. -Yogi Berra
We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement. -Ed Vargo, MLB umpire
You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball. -Albert Einstein
Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero. - Edward Abbey
I had it all, and I blew it. - Mickey Mantle US major league baseball player reported to be said shortly before dying from cancer and other complications of alcoholism
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
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
Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. - Frederick B. Wilcox
The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back. - Steve Garvey
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
Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that. - Nomar Garciaparra
Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. - Frank Robinson US baseball player, manager
Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand. - Leo Durocher Baseball player, manager
Baseball is a game of inches. - Branch Rickey US baseball player, manager, executive
I ain't ever had a job. I just always played baseball. - Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige
Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical. - Yogi Berra
Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game -- it, and high taxes. - Will Rogers
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets. - Yogi Berra
When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player, and join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both. - Anthony Standen (ouch!!)
