Inspiring Quotes for Baseball Players: Fuel Your Passion

"You just can't beat the person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished."

- Joe Torre

"You may not think you’re going to make it. You may want to quit. But if you keep your eye on the ball, you can accomplish anything."

- Hank Aaron

"Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, ‘You’re never going to make it.’ I appreciated their honesty because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation."

- Mike Piazza

"Never allow the circumstances of your life to become an excuse. People will allow you to do it. But I believe we have a personal obligation to make the most of the abilities we have."

- Jim Abbott

"To succeed in baseball, as in life, you must make adjustments."

- Ken Griffey Jr.

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

"If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game."

- Rickey Henderson

"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

"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball."

- Pete Rose

"There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can’t. What you’ve got to do is turn about and say ‘Watch me’."

- Bryce Harper

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination."

- Tommy Lasorda

"If you’re not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he’ll be ready to take your job."

- Brooks Robinson

"There may be people that have more talent than you, but there is no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do."

- Derek Jeter

"You can’t let the failures get you down. Learn from them, stay positive, and never give up."

- Buster Posey

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

"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

"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

"You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living."

- Roy Campanella

"Baseball is a game of failure. It's about how you respond to it that matters."

- Alex Rodriguez

"I always try to do the best I can in every at-bat, every game. Just try to be consistent."

- Mike Trout

"You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series."

- Anthony Rizzo

"It's not about the name on the back of the jersey; it's about the name on the front."

- David Wright

"You can't worry about what people say about you. You just have to go out and do your job, and that's what I focus on."

- Manny Machado

"I'm not afraid to fail. I'm not afraid to fall over and make a mistake."

- Dustin Pedroia

"I don't care about three hits in a game; I care about going 3-for-4 and helping the team win."

- Christian Yelich

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing."

- Javier Báez

"I want to be the best. I want to be the best at what I do."

- Cody Bellinger

"You've got to have fun. Regardless of how you feel inside, you've got to project positive energy."

- Manny Ramirez

"You've got to love the process."

- Mike Soroka

"You've got to have that edge to compete at the highest level."

- Gerrit Cole

"There's always room for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the game."

- Justin Verlander

"If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more."

- Sammy Sosa

"Never say never in this game because crazy stuff can happen."

- Mark Buehrle

"Remember two things: play hard and have fun."

- Tony Gwynn

"It isn’t hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough is being good every day."

- Willie Mays

"I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don’t think about it is when I’m playing it."

- Carl Yastrzemski

"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

"Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short."

- Al Lopez

"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

"Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure."

- Joe Maddon

"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."

- Bo Jackson

"A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example."

- Joe DiMaggio

"If a ballplayer is satisfied, he’s going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve."

- Nellie Fox

"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way."

- Satchel Paige

"When you get up to the plate, nobody’s there to help you. You’ve got to do this on your own."

- Ichiro Suzuki

"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."

- Yogi Berra

"There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that."

- Derek Jeter

"I worry about what I can control, and that's come out and improve every day, enjoy the process, count your blessings, and work extremely hard."

- Tim Tebow

"You can't win unless you learn how to lose."

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"Stay humble, and work hard every day no matter what happens."

- Ronald Acuna Jr.

"I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee."

- Joe DiMaggio

"You should shoot for high standards, and believe they're obtainable."

- Buster Posey

"Yeah, I've never been afraid of any challenge, and I'm either all in or all out, because that's the mindset I've always had."

- John Smoltz

"It is my biggest regret that I gave up 10 runs on my last outing as a Ranger."

- Yu Darvish

"Words can't describe how happy I'm feeling with the love I'm feeling from the fans, from the Mavs fans and my people in Georgia. They appreciate what I do."

- Zaza Pachulia

"It ain't like I had a dad out there to play catch with me or throw me batting practice. I'm proud of myself."

- Tommy Pham

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

- Yogi Berra

"The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up."

- Bob Uecker

"The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them."

- Hank Aaron

"I guess, first and foremost, I'd like to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ."

- Tim Tebow

"It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!"

- Ernie Banks

"I don't think that you have to put any pressure on yourself."

- Aroldis Chapman

"Sometimes, we get caught up in the moment. We start hanging out with the wrong people. But you know, everything in life happens for a reason, so you can appreciate what you are."

- Manny Ramirez

"Green base ballers don't want to be viewed as unhealthy. Young players are constantly judged and evaluated on every layer of their being."

- Gabe Kapler

"My dad was born in Cuba and my mother's family is Puerto Rican. But my parents are both extremely proud to be American citizens, and they raised me to take pride in being from this country."

- Nolan Arenado

"Life is one big transition."

- Willie Stargell

"As a catcher, you have to put your focus on what you're doing defensively. You learn how to put your at-bats aside if you're struggling."

- Buster Posey

"When you fail, just come back up and keep grinding."

- Juan Soto

"I thank God every day because I'm living a life I never imagined."

- Ronald Acuna Jr.

"I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice."

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided."

- Casey Stengel

"Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests."

- Derek Jeter

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

"The integrity of the game is the umpires. Nobody else. The entire integrity of the game is the umpires."

- Doug Harvey

"I'm a firm believer that positive thinking creates positive results."

- Eddy Alvarez

"When I backed off the cardio and refocused on strength training, the muscle definition came back."

- Gabe Kapler

"My favorite ability in a player is the combination of aggressiveness and patience."

- Joey Votto

"I have such high standards for myself and I will never settle for being a mediocre player."

- Chipper Jones

"If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself."

- Mickey Mantle

"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration."

- Casey Stengel

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."

- Satchel Paige

"Baseball is a mental game. You have to be mentally tough, focused, and ready to perform under pressure."

- Joe Torre

"Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate dont move."

- Tom Seaver

"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

"If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are greater"

- Ted Williams

"This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done."

- Jackie Robinson

"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

"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 dont play together, the club wont be worth a dime."

- Babe Ruth

"Baseball is 90% mental. The other half is physical."

- Yogi Berra

"Baseball is a mental game. Everyone is good when they're swinging well. It's what you do when you're not swinging well that matters."

- Reggie Jackson

"You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life."

- Pete Rose

"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

"When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball."

- Pete Rose

"Dont worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too."

- Branch Rickey

"Associate with those who help you believe in yourself."

- Brooks Robinson

"Baseball is a game of failure. It's about how you respond to adversity."

- Dave Roberts

"The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three-run homers."

- Earl Weaver

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."

- Tommy Lasorda

"It's not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."

- Paul "Bear" Bryant

""Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.""

- Charles Kuralt

""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.

""There may be people that have more talent than you, but there is no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.""

- Derek Jeter

""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.""

- Ernie Harwell

""Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball""

- Pete Rose

"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

"The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else."

- Tony La Russa

""Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.""

- Juliana Hatfield

""Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.""

- William 'Bill' Klem

"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 is a game of mental toughness and confidence."

- Derek Jeter

"Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love."

- Vince Lombardi

"You cant 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 is a game of inches, and also a game of adjustments."

- Dusty Baker

"Control is what kept me in the big leagues for twenty-two years."

- Cy Young

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

""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

"The best possible thing in baseball is winning the World Series. The second best thing is losing the World Series."

- Tommy Lasorda

"The mental game is just as important as the physical one."

- Mike Trout

"Pitch within yourself."

- Tom Seaver

"What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time."

- Don Zimmer

"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

"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

"When I played ball, I didnt 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

"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

""I've found in life the more you practice, the better you get.""

- Ted Williams

"It takes pitching, hitting and defense. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable."

- Joe Garagiola

"You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat."

- Christy Mathewson

"Dont be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn."

- Babe Ruth

""The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.""

- Bryant Gumbel

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."

- William James

""Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.""

- Jacques Barzun

""As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.""

- Garth Brooks

"I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile."

- Tom Clark

""Progress always involves risk. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.""

- Frederick B. Wilcox

"It is a game of inches and a lot of mental preparation."

- Tony La Russa

"Be on time. Bust your butt. Play smart. And have some laughs along the way."

- Whitey Herzog

"It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one."

- Chuck Tanner

""Baseball is a drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.""

- Joe Garagiola

""Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.""

- Tommy Lasorda

"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

"If you cant outsmart people, outwork them."

- Bill Veeck

"Baseball is a game of inches, and so is life."

- Robert Redford (as Roy Hobbs in "The Natural")

"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

"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 ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.""

- Yogi Berra

""Baseball is dull only to dull minds.""

- Red Barber

"Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection."

- Red Smith

"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

"This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings."

- Bill Veeck

""Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is a very zen-like game.""

- Jim Jarmusch

"Hitting is 50% above the shoulders."

- Ted Williams

"Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching."

- Ferguson Jenkins

""There are only two seasons: winter and baseball.""

- Bill Veeck

"If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it."

- Ted Williams

"Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat."

- Lou Brock

"Your body will be where your mind is."

- Tony Robbins

"You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones."

- Dale Earnhardt

""You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.""

- Cal Ripken Jr.

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

- Mark Twain

""Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.""

- Robert Lee Frost

"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."

- Satchel Paige

"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 is a fun game. It beats working for a living."

- Phil Linz

"Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you dont like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you."

- Reggie Jackson

"When they start the game, they dont yell, 'Work ball.' They say, 'Play ball.'"

- Willie Stargell

"Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing."

- Warren Spahn

""It ain't nothin' till I call it.""

- William 'Bill' Klem

"I didnt get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone."

- Wade Boggs

"Most one-run games are lost, not won."

- Gene Mauch

""Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.""

- Jim Sensenbrenner

""Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.""

- George Will

"You cant think and hit at the same time."

- Yogi Berra

"A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage."

- Pete Rose

"There's no crying in baseball!"

- Tom Hanks (as Jimmy Dugan in "A League of Their Own")

"In baseball, you don't know nothin'."

- Yogi Berra

"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

""A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.""

- Humphrey Bogart

"Dont tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball."

- Pete Hamill

"It ain't like football. You cant make up no trick plays."

- Yogi Berra

"Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa."

- Bob Veale

""It could be, it might be...It is, a home run!""

- Harry Caray

""Hello again, everybody. It's a bee-yoo-tiful day for baseball.""

- Harry Caray

"You dont save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain."

- Leo Durocher

"Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona."

- George F. Will

"Hey big mouth, how do you spell triple?"

- Shoeless Joe Jackson

"I dont care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all."

- Bob Lemon

"I dont want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it."

- Rogers Hornsby

"Sandy's fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound."

- Jim Murray

"Dont forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball."

- Woodie Held

"The ball went further than I ever went on vacation as a kid."

- Gene Geiselmann

"With those who dont 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 cant think of anything to say to them."

- Art Hill

"Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated."

"The future is ahead of you, so keep moving forward."

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