I never said most of the things I said. – Yogi Berra
Ninety percent of this game is half mental. – Yogi Berra
If you come to a fork in the road, take it. – Yogi Berra
That was like swatting June bugs off a fly. – Jerry Coleman
Sports do not build character. They reveal it. – Heywood Broun
If you don t know where you are, a map won’t help. – Watts Humphrey
If you don’t know where you’re going any road will do – Lewis Carroll
Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there. – Bo Jackson
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? – Satchel Paige
It’s hard to get lost if you don’t know where you’re going. – Jim Jarmusch
If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead. – Samuel Beckett
The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase. – Yogi Berra
We didn’t do anything fancy. We just played blue-collar baseball. – Lou Piniella
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere – Henry A. Kissinger
Get out the rye bread and mustard grandma, cause it’s GRAND SALAMI TIME! – Dave Niehaus
I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes ’em. – Satchel Paige
The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence. – Greg Maddux
We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls. – Jim Fowler
Beethoven can’t really be great because his picture isn’t on a bubble gum card. – Charles M. Schulz
I’d rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field. – Bryce Harper
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’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
Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems. – Leon Brown
Life is a daily cleansing. Negativity must be washed away, if you wish to attract positive experiences to your life. – Leon Brown
You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass. – Leon Brown
We won’t let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers. – Andrew McCutchen
Find something good within your life and give every ounce of positivity you have towards it, then watch how your life changes. – Leon Brown
It’s a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it. – Vin Scully
Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders – and then you let them do their jobs. – Pat Gillick
I’ve always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset. – Curt Schilling
My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs. – Jim Evans
We all used to collect baseball cards that came with bubble gum. You could never get the smell of gum off your cards, but you kept your Yankees cards pristine. – Penny Marshall
I mean, people think I’m too intense for baseball. I’ve always excelled to be the best, no matter what, but it’s like people think something is wrong with that. – Albert Belle
Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks… their smells, their special seasons, their moods. – Thomas Boswell
Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason – because some people like them. It’s the same with baseball statistics. – Bill James
His herding instinct is so strong that he confuses tractors on a baseball field for sheep. He was hospitalized twice. Once by a line drive and once for attacking a tractor tread. – Tom Hayden
I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory—that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark, and understand baseball perfectly. – Bowie Kuhn
I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself? – Yogi Berra
I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy. – Dusty Baker
What’s odd is that nobody in my family is an artist. My cousins are like secretaries at law firms or nurses or just more blue collar. And I was in a baseball team. I used to be like a really big tomboy. – Melonie Diaz
I don’t know where the loyalty lies in baseball. You really don’t have to protect each other much, unless there’s like a bench-clearing brawl. In hockey, it’s important that they look out for each other. – Sean William Scott
His doctors said he was, in many ways, the most remarkable patient they’d ever seen. His bravery, so stark and real, that even those used to seeing people in dire circumstances were moved by his example. – Bob Costas
I played football in high school, I played baseball when I was younger, things like that, but I think it was the passion I had for track where you want to do an individual sport and be the best, I think – there’s nothing that can replace that. – Tyson Gay
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
Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in vociferous numbers, sustaining themselves with a heavenly ichor that combines loyalty, criticism, cheerfulness, durability, rage, beer and hope, in exquisite proportions. – Roger Angell
These kids today, they want to be men, they want to be foxhole guys, but they’re not being allowed to do that. Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They’d be telling our soldiers: ‘That’s enough. You’ve fired too many bullets from your rifle this week!’ – Tom Seaver
Baseball’s time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This is the way the game was played in our youth and in our fathers’ youth, and even back then … there must have been the same feeling that time could be stopped. – Roger Angell
The ’80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting to flood the neighborhoods. And then you had hip hop, which was something new, other than what we were doing, which was sports, playing football, basketball, baseball. And I was excited. – Ice Cube
My goal on Earth is not to win a World Series or be the best baseball player who ever lived. That simply is not up to me because I have to wait and see if it is part of the Lord’s plan. My goal is to follow the Lord and what he wants me to do so that someday I may enter His kingdom and receive everlasting life. – David Murphy
Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don’t have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can’t stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there’s too much stimulation. – Temple Grandin
All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There’s hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain’t got indoor plumbing, but that don’t mean there’s something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I’ve never seen a more boring sport. – Mike Royko
I very much related to the idea of sexual identity and how it doesn’t have to be black and white. When I first came out, there would be butch people in baseball caps, and that wasn’t me, and then there were girls in heels and dresses, and that didn’t feel like that was me either. But after a while I learned there’s a lot of ground in between. – Dee Rees
There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking – the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting – that does not apply to the turkey breast, which is, really, a convenience of food… A turkey without seasonal angst is like a baseball game without a national anthem, a winter without snow, a birthday party without candles. – Laurie Colwin
To me, personally, it doesn’t matter what color I am. Black or white, Asian or Hispanic, it doesn’t matter to me as long as the message I’m portraying to people that watch me on TV is positive and it shows that they can do things that are different besides catching a football, hitting a baseball or shooting a basketball. I’m just showing them that stepping outside the bubble is OK and they can be successful at it. – Shani Davis
Jim Fregosi will be deeply missed in the baseball world. Joni and the rest of the family are in our prayers. Fregos, was the best manager I’ve ever played for. Our relationship was so special.and he was the one that taught me how to be a leader. Fregos and I could relate to each other whether we were in the clubhouse or on the field. In 1993 The City of Brotherly Love changed the world..Fregos was the driving force!!! – Darren Daulton
The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and goes back, again and again, to that terrific power piece at the end of the workout when it felt as if you and the boat were flying, as if you legs were two cannons and your arms were two oars and the great lateral muscles of your back were pterodactyl wings and the brim of your baseball cap was a harpoon. – Barry S. Strauss
Everything with me is normal except when I pitch (in Fenway Park). When I pitch here it’s a little different. There is a little more anxiety to go along with the nostalgia because this is the park I grew up with as a kid. This is the park I dreamed of playing Major League Baseball in and no other ballpark has that feeling for me. There are a lot more family and friends here than in my normal starts and I want to pitch well here. – Tom Glavine
In college, I was like most young men, doing what pleased me and looking out mainly for my own interest. I had success in baseball and was very popular in school but all these things, which the world chases after, left me empty and unfulfilled. Through a series of trials and difficult times, the Lord opened my eyes to my sin and what would truly fulfill me. June 9, 2001, I received forgiveness and the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ. – Luke Scott
For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child might, of an awesome hierarchy that was real and felt, baseball was a kind of secular church that reached into every class and region of the nation and bound millions upon millions of us together in common concerns, loyalties, rituals, enthusiasms, and antagonisms. Baseball made me understand what patriotism was about, at its best. – Philip Roth
In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy’s defensive line. In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! I hope I’ll be safe at home! – George Carlin
