Inspiring Baseball Quotes to Fuel Your Passion

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

- Mark Buehrle

"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

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

- Tony Gwynn

"Two things help me be a winner. One is I try to stay on an even keel. I don't get too high or too low. Two is I do a lot of visualization. I never see a bad pitch. I always see a good one."

- Ila Borders

"In the pursuit of greatness, a strong mind is the most valuable asset one can possess."

- Babe Ruth

"The greatest battles are fought and won within the depths of one's own mind."

- Babe Ruth

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

- Mike Trout

"Baseball is a game of mental toughness and confidence."

- Derek Jeter

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

- Yogi Berra

"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."

- Archie Griffin

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Jackie Robinson

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

- Satchel Paige

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

- Ted Williams

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

- Ichiro Suzuki

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

- Satchel Paige

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

- Joe DiMaggio

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

- Bo Jackson

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Brooks Robinson

"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

"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

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

- Willie Mays

"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

"Pitching is the art of instilling fear."

- Sandy Koufax

"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

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

- Pete Rose

"Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical."

- Yogi Berra

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

- Pete Rose

"All I know is when we win a game, it's a team win. When we lose a game, it's a team loss."

- The Bad News Bears

"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

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

- Christy Mathewson

"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. I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball and I knew I had to leave it."

- Willie Mays

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Don Zimmer

"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

"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

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

- Branch Rickey

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

- Tommy Lasorda

"My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad."

- Mickey Mantle

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

- Leo Durocher

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

- Juliana Hatfield

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

- Bill Veeck

"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."

- Bull Durham

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

- William 'Bill' Klem

"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

"If you cant outsmart people, outwork them."

- Bill Veeck

"There's no crying in baseball!"

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

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

- Tommy Lasorda

"Baseball is a game of inches, and also a game of adjustments."

- Dusty Baker

"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

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

- Ferguson Jenkins

"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."

- John Thorn

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

- Frederick B. Wilcox

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

- Garth Brooks

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

- Bryant Gumbel

"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.

"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

"Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing."

- Warren Spahn

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

- Jacques Barzun

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

- Bill Veeck

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

- Joe Garagiola

"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

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

- Jim Jarmusch

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

- Pete Rose

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

- Yogi Berra

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

- Jim Sensenbrenner

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

- Humphrey Bogart

"The first books I was interested in were all about baseball."

- Charles Kuralt

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

- Robert Lee Frost

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

- George F. Will

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

- William 'Bill' Klem

"Baseball is dull only to dull minds."

- Red Barber

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

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