These Baseball quotes will inspire you. Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams that take turns batting and fielding. The game proceeds when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on the batting team tries to hit with a bat.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging Baseball quotes, Baseball sayings, and Baseball proverbs.
Best Baseball Quotes
- “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
- “The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.” ~ Greg Maddux
- “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.” ~ Bob Feller
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“Pitching is the art of instilling fear.” ~ Sandy Koufax
- “Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.” ~ Ferguson Jenkins
- “The reason I think I’m a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That’s what you do to pitch. That’s what pitchers have to do to win games” ~ Greg Maddu
- “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
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“Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don’t move.” ~ Satchel Paige
- “Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.” ~ Warren Spahn
- “A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that’s the definition of a good pitcher.” ~ Sandy Koufax
- “Nobody likes to hear it, because it’s dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same – pitching.” ~ Earl Weaver
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“My pitching philosophy is simple – keep the ball way from the bat.” ~ Satchel Paige
- “It helps if the hitter thinks you’re a little crazy.” ~ Nolan Ryan
- “Show me a guy who can’t pitch inside and I’ll show you a loser.” ~ Sandy Koufax
- “Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.” ~ Casey Stengel
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“You know you’re pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.” ~ Duke Snider
- “Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.” ~ Robert Frost
- “The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.” ~ Earl Weaver
- “You don’t save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.” ~ Leo Durocher
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“Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.” ~ Casey Stengel
- “The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I’m in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I’ll go for a strikeout. But most of the time I try to throw to spots. I try to get them to pop up or ground out. On a strikeout I might have to throw five or six pitches, sometimes more if there are foul-offs. That tires me. So I just try to get outs. That’s what counts – outs. You win with outs, not strikeouts.” ~ Sandy Koufax
- “No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.” ~ Casey Stengel
- “Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.” ~ Ty Cobb
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“Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.” ~ Joe Garagiola
- “To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.” ~ Steve Hovley
- “The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.” ~ Bob Lemon
- “Throw strikes. Home plate don’t move.” ~ Satchel Paige
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“They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.” ~ Willie Mays
- “There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.” ~ Sandy Koufax
- “The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don’t have to ask anyone or play politics. You don’t have to wait for the reviews.” ~ Sandy Koufax
- “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.” ~ Satchel Paige
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“The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he’s timid.” ~ Don Drysdale
- “One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.” ~ Jim Abbott
- “I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.” ~ Bill Lee
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“This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.” ~ Bill Veeck
- “The pitcher has got only a ball. I’ve got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.” ~ Hank Aaron
- “I was pitching on all adrenaline and challenging them. I was throwing the ball right down the heart of the plate.” ~ Roger Clemens
