The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage of weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
Hank Aaron Baseball / Batting / Pitching

You can't think and hit at the same time.
Yogi Berra Baseball / Batting / Pitching

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 / Batting / Pitching

A ball player's got to be kept hungry to become a big-leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.
Joe DiMaggio Baseball / Batting / Pitching

Fans don't boo nobodies.
Reggie Jackson Baseball / Batting / Pitching

You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first.
Anonymous Baseball / Batting / Pitching

Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.
Reggie Jackson on Tom Seaver Baseball / Batting / Pitching

There are a lot of shots in golf I can't hit, but I try to hit them anyway. The frustration is not there, because I'm still learning. But I really know how to do this. I'm not just hoping to get it where I want it... Let the other guys do it half-assed.
Greg Maddux Baseball / Batting / Pitching

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
Satchel Paige Baseball / Batting / Pitching

Hey big mouth, how do you spell triple?
Shoeless Joe Jackson to a heckler Baseball / Batting / Pitching

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.
Ty Cobb Baseball / Batting / Pitching / /Email this page

I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.
Tom Clark Baseball / Batting / Pitching

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.
Tommy Lasorda Baseball / Batting / Pitching

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 Baseball / Batting / Pitching

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
Mickey Mantle Baseball / Batting / Pitching

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
Ty Cobb Baseball / Batting / Pitching

I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.
Wade Boggs Baseball / Batting / Pitching

Sandy's fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound.
Jim Murray Baseball / Batting / Pitching

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
Sandy Koufax Baseball / Batting / Pitching

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 / Batting / Pitching / /Email this page

There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
Al Gallagher Baseball / Batting / Pitching

Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.
Phil Linz Baseball / Batting / Pitching

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."
Willie Stargell Baseball / Batting / Pitching

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
Rogers Hornsby Baseball / Batting / Pitching

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 Baseball / Batting / Pitching

Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa.
Bob Veale Baseball / Batting / Pitching / /Email this page

"If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got"
Mark Twain

I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.
Bob Lemon Baseball / Batting / Pitching

It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one.
Chuck Tanner Baseball / Batting / Pitching

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Hank Aaron Baseball / Batting / Pitching

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
Warren Spahn Baseball / Batting / Pitching

Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.
Woodie Held Baseball / Batting / Pitching

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
Red Smith Baseball / Batting / Pitching / /Email this page

There are three types of baseball players: those who make things happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.
Tommy Lasorda Baseball / Batting / Pitching

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.
George F. Will Baseball / Batting / Pitching

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 / Batting / Pitching

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth Baseball / Batting / Pitching

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
Ty Cobb Baseball / Batting / Pitching

Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off... the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases.
Rick Maksian Baseball / Batting / Pitching

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'
Joe DiMaggio, Baseball / Batting / Pitching

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.
Pete Rose, Baseball / Batting / Pitching

I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway (Mays).
Gil Hodges Baseball / Batting / Pitching / /Email this page

I remember the last season I played. I went home after a ballgame one day, lay down on my bed, and tears came to my eyes. How can you explain that? It's like crying for your mother after she's gone. You cry because you love her. I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball and I knew I had to leave it.
Willie Mays Baseball / Batting / Pitching

The ball went further than I ever went on vacation as a kid.
Gene Geiselmann Baseball / Batting / Pitching

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra Baseball / Batting / Pitching

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.
Tom Seaver Baseball / Batting / Pitching

He hits my changeup. He hits my curveball. He hits my slider. I've run out of pitches to throw him. I just try to pick the spots where he's going to hit his homeruns.
Brian Bohanonn on pitching to Mark McGwire Baseball / Batting / Pitching

Hitting is 50% above the shoulders.
Ted Williams Baseball / Batting / Pitching / /Email this page

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
Warren Spahn Baseball / Batting / Pitching

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 Baseball / Batting / Pitching

If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.
Bill Veeck Baseball / Batting / Pitching

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.
Pete Rose Baseball / Batting / Pitching

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.
Ferguson Jenkins Baseball / Batting / Pitching

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 Baseball / Batting / Pitching

Control is what kept me in the big leagues for twenty-two years.
Cy Young Baseball / Batting / Pitching

When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.
Pete Rose Baseball / Batting / Pitching

The best possible thing in baseball is winning the World Series. The second best thing is losing the World Series.
Tommy Lasorda Baseball / Batting / Pitching

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 Baseball / Batting / Pitching / /Email this page

Pitch within yourself.
Tom Seaver Baseball / Batting / Pitching

Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.
Brooks Robinson Baseball / Batting / Pitching

If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it.
Ted Williams Baseball / Batting / Pitching

Be on time. Bust your butt. Play smart. And have some laughs along the way.
Whitey Herzog Baseball / Batting / Pitching

Most one-run games are lost, not won.
Gene Mauch Baseball / Batting / Pitching

It takes pitching, hitting and defense. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.
Joe Garagiola Baseball / Batting / Pitching

Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.
Babe Ruth Baseball / Batting / Pitching

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possible be in baseball and in life.
Pete Rose Baseball / Batting / Pitching

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat.
Lou Brock Baseball / Batting / Pitching

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