473 BEST MLB Baseball Motivational Speeches and Quotes
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List of 473 BEST MLB Baseball Motivational Speeches and Quotes
1. "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run." - Babe Ruth
2. "Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." - Babe Ruth
3. "The harder you work, the luckier you get." - Gary Player
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
4. "Baseball is ninety percent mental, and the other half is physical." - Yogi Berra
5. "It ain't over 'til it's over." - Yogi Berra
6. "Heroes get remembered, but legends never die." - Babe Ruth
7. "Baseball is a game of inches." - Branch Rickey
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
8. "There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened." - Tommy Lasorda
9. "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." - Yogi Berra
10. "There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do." - Derek Jeter
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
11. "Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared." - Sparky Anderson
12. "Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again." - Bob Feller
13. "Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person." - Derek Jeter
14. "Set your goals high, and don't stop until you get there." - Bo Jackson
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
15. "The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers." - Earl Weaver
16. "The only way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then to pick it up." - Bob Uecker
17. "Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand." - Leo Durocher
18. "The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know." - Mickey Mantle
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
19. "You can observe a lot by just watching." - Yogi Berra
20. "I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid." - Mickey Mantle
21. "Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business." - Willie Mays
22. "Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary." - Ray Knight
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
23. "It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square." - Pete Rose
24. "It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth
25. "Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men." - Christy Mathewson
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
26. "Luck is the residue of design." - Branch Rickey
27. "A ball player's got to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer." - Rogers Hornsby
28. "There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad." - Eddie Mathews
29. "I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious." - Hank Aaron
30. "You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball." - Cal Ripken Jr.
31. "I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give." - Roberto Clemente
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
32. "You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be in baseball and in life." - Pete Rose
33. "The most important thing in baseball is something we can all control - the hustle." - Derek Jeter
34. "Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your own two ears." - Laird Hamilton
35. "The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you." - Mickey Mantle
36. "The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia." - Sparky Anderson
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
37. "When they start the game, they don't yell 'Work ball.' They say, 'Play ball.'" - Willie Stargell
38. "I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats." - Yogi Berra
39. "When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game." - Joe DiMaggio
40. "The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid." - Don Drysdale
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
41. "Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast." - Joe Garagiola
42. "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
43. "Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears grey." - Joe Garagiola
44. "Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually." - Curt Schilling
45. "The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen." - Bob Lemon
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
46. "Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it’s about love, integrity, and respect." - Pat Gillick
47. "I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen." - Bob Lemon
48. "Baseball is not just a sport. It's a religion." - Mickey Mantle
49. "The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know." - Mickey Mantle
50. "You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain." - Leo Durocher
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
51. "Baseball is a man maker." - Al Spalding
52. "The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration." - Frida Kahlo
53. "Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona." - George F. Will
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
54. "I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game." - Walt Whitman
55. "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
56. "The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up." - Bob Uecker
57. "Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical." - Yogi Berra
58. "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." - Lou Gehrig
59. "The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play." - Reggie Jackson
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
60. "It's a beautiful day for a ballgame... Let's play two!" - Ernie Banks
61. "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run." - Babe Ruth
62. "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
63. "I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar." - Bob Lemon
64. "Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out." - Ty Cobb
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
65. "A Life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." - Jackie Robinson
66. "Baseball life is a tough life on the family." - Nolan Ryan
67. "I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball." - Pete Rose
68. "This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings." - Bill Veeck
69. "Baseball is a game of inches." - Branch Rickey
70. "I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery." - Ty Cobb
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
71. "I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing." - Pete Rose
72. "In baseball, there's always the next day." - Ryne Sandberg
73. "Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray." - Joe Garagiola
74. "I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great." - Joe Posnanski
75. "A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings." - Earl Wilson
76. "There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens." - Tommy Lasorda
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
77. "Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what it most truly is, is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps." - Willie Mays
78. "The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time." - James Earl Jones, Field of Dreams
79. "Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain." - Paul Auster
80. "Baseball is beautiful and it is fully as arousing, as sexy, as the act of love itself. And it is better than sex in that it lasts longer and there's a winner afterwards." - Philip Roth
81. "Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world." - Babe Ruth
82. "Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it." - George Halas
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
83. "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
84. "Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you." - Chad Harbach
85. "You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life." - Pete Rose
86. "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
87. "Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there." - Bo Jackson
88. "Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical." - Yogi Berra
89. "In baseball, you don't know nothing." - Yogi Berra
90. "Heroes are remembered, but legends never die. Follow your heart and you can never go wrong." - Babe Ruth
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
91. "The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers." - Earl Weaver
92. "The only way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up." - Bob Uecker
93. "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 damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." - Earl Weaver
94. "Baseball is a game, my dear boy, a game. One must always remember that. So go out there and have fun." - Babe Ruth
95. "The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds." - Casey Stengel
96. "The game ain't over till it's over." - Yogi Berra
97. "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." - Yogi Berra
98. "Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential." - Bud Wilkinson
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
99. "Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball." - James Patrick Murray
100. "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
101. "There may be people that have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do." - Derek Jeter
102. "Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn." - Babe Ruth
103. "Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." - Babe Ruth
104. "It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
105. "If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more." - Sammy Sosa
106. "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
107. "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
108. "A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues." - Joe DiMaggio
109. "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination." - Tommy Lasorda
110. "The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love." - Bryant Gumbel
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
111. "When I step between the lines, my worries disappear. I think that's why I play the game so hard." - Ken Griffey Jr.
112. "You can’t be afraid to make errors! You can’t be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it." - Lou Brock
113. "I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice." - Casey Stengel
114. "Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field." - Juliana Hatfield
115. "Baseball is a game of inches." - Branch Rickey
116. "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
117. "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run." - Babe Ruth
118. "Baseball is a man maker." - Al Spalding
119. "A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings." - Earl Wilson
120. "You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first." - Frederick B. Wilcox
121. "Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect." - Pat Gillick
122. "Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand." - Leo Durocher
123. "There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens." - Tommy Lasorda
124. "Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part." - Mickey Mantle
125. "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
126. "There may be people that have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do." - Derek Jeter
127. "Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game." - Babe Ruth
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
128. "Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical." - Yogi Berra
129. "There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball." - Bill Veeck
130. "You can't think and hit at the same time." - Yogi Berra
131. "In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game." - Earl Weaver
132. "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
133. "Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray." - Joe Garagiola
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
134. "Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know in your heart you were meant to do." - Leroy "Satchel" Paige
135. "Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa." - Casey Stengel
136. "Problems are only opportunities in work clothes." - Henry J. Kaiser
137. "You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living." - Roy Campanella
138. "I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game." - Walt Whitman
139. "Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?" - Jim Bouton
140. "Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually." - Curt Schilling
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
141. "It ain't over till it's over." - Yogi Berra
142. "There are only five things you can do in baseball – run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power." - Leo Durocher
143. "It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career." - Carlton Fisk
144. "Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it’s about love, integrity, and respect." - Pat Gillick
145. "The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers." - Earl Weaver
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
146. "The only real game in the world, I think, is baseball." - Babe Ruth
147. "The most important pitch is the next one." - Mike Scioscia
148. "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." - Yogi Berra
149. "The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely." - Ted Williams
150. "If you're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job." - Brooks Robinson
151. "Heroes are remembered, but legends never die." - Babe Ruth
152. "Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away." - Tommy Lasorda
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"Never felt more prepared. Bring it on!" - Michael Brown
"Speech ignited my spirit. Victory's mine!" - Sarah Taylor
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153. "Be on time. Bust your butt. Play smart. And have some laughs while you’re at it." - Whitey Herzog
154. "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog." - Archie Griffin
155. "In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated." - Willie Mays
156. "The best possible thing in baseball is winning the World Series. The second best thing is losing the World Series." - Tommy Lasorda
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"Game's set. Motivated like never before!" - Robert Miller
157. "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
158. "Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige
159. "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." - Steve Prefontaine
160. "Baseball is not just a sport, it's a play for keeps. A run for the soul." - Willie Stargell
161. "The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part." - Pierre de Coubertin
162. "I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball." - LeBron James
163. "The only important statistics is the final score." - Bill Russell
164. "If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it." - Ronnie Lott
165. "As long as I have fun playing, the stats will take care of themselves." - Ken Griffey Jr.
166. "When you’re in a slump, it’s almost as if you look out at the field and it’s one big glove." - Vance Law
167. "What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time." - Don Zimmer
168. "Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona." - George F. Will
169. "You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be – in baseball and in life." - Pete Rose
170. "A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." - Jim Bouton
171. "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." - Vernon Law
172. "Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too." - Yogi Berra
173. "It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." - A. Bartlett Giamatti
174. "Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain." - Paul Auster
175. "If you're not having fun in baseball, you miss the point of everything." - Chris Chambliss
176. "When they start the game, they don't yell, 'Work ball.' They say, 'Play ball.'" - Willie Stargell
177. "Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared." - Sparky Anderson
178. "The only way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then to pick it up." - Bob Uecker
179. "The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical." - Julius Erving
180. "Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first." - Frederick B. Wilcox
181. "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination." - Tommy Lasorda
182. "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run." - Babe Ruth
183. "There's no crying in baseball!" - Tom Hanks in 'A League of Their Own'
184. "Do what you love to do and give it your very best. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it." - Al Lopez
185. "The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder." - Derek Jeter
186. "The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love." - Bryant Gumbel
187. "The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know." - Mickey Mantle
188. "Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field." - Juliana Hatfield
189. "You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball." - Cal Ripken, Jr.
190. "The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give." - Howard Cosell
191. "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
192. "Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical." - Yogi Berra
193. "Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world." - Babe Ruth
194. "Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs." - Ernie Harwell
195. "Baseball is more than just a game... it’s life being played out on a field – a field of dreams – on diamonds of green, where men become boys and boys become men, all speaking one universal language without uttering a single word." - Tom Tatum
196. "A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings." - Earl Wilson
197. "There is an important difference between confidence and conceit." - Jim Bouton
198. "I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats." - Yogi Berra
199. "If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game." - Rickey Henderson
200. "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
201. "When life throws you curveballs, hit them out of the park." - Anonymous
202. "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
203. "Winners make goals; losers make excuses." - Anonymous
204. "Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball." - Jim Murray
205. "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
206. "If you don't love the game, it's impossible to last." - David Ortiz
207. "The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds." - Casey Stengel
208. "I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy." - Hank Aaron
209. "Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect." - Cal Ripken, Jr.
210. "Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of me than I am of him." - Ty Cobb
211. "Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person." - Derek Jeter
212. "Paying attention to the small details and taking advantage of them gives you an edge." - Buck Showalter
213. "The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three-run homers." - Earl Weaver
214. "Luck is the residue of design." - Branch Rickey
215. "To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life." - Willie Stargell
216. "You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it." - Lou Brock
217. "Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." - Babe Ruth
218. "I see great things in baseball. It’s our game - the American game." - Walt Whitman
219. "The only way to prove you are a good sport is to lose." - Ernie Banks
220. "There may be people that have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do." - Derek Jeter
221. "In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated." - Willie Mays
222. "The game isn't over until it's over." - Yogi Berra
223. "When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball." - Pete Rose
224. "Baseball is a game of inches." - Branch Rickey
225. "You can observe a lot by watching." - Yogi Berra
226. "Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out." - Ty Cobb
227. "Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there." - Bo Jackson
228. "Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn." - Babe Ruth
229. "You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living." - Roy Campanella
230. "The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender." - Marv Levy
231. "A baseball fan has the digestive system of a billy goat. He can, and does, devour any set of diamond statistics with insatiable appetite and then nuzzles hungrily for more." - Arthur Daley
232. "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln
233. "I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat." - Tom Landry
234. "The key to winning is poise under stress." - Paul Brown
235. "Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain." - Paul Auster
236. "Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled." - Imran Khan
237. "Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care." - Mike Krzyzewski
238. "The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence." - Greg Maddux
239. "Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand." - Leo Durocher
240. "A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues." - Joe DiMaggio
241. "The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules." - Sparky Anderson
242. "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
243. "The only way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up." - Bob Uecker
244. "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
245. "When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch." - Ty Cobb
246. "Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona." - George F. Will
247. "In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game." - Earl Weaver
248. "Much like the butterflies that we get when we stand on that first tee, when we are in the last inning, bases loaded and a full count, we must still be able to swing free and easy. If we let the situation get the better of us, we cannot perform at our best." - Yogi Berra
249. "You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." - Michael Jordan
250. "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
251. "The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run." - Hank Aaron
252. "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 damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." - Earl Weaver
253. "Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts." - Tommy Lasorda
254. "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." - Yogi Berra
255. "It's not the team with the best players that win. It's the players with the best team that wins." - Babe Ruth
256. "There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens." - Tommy Lasorda
257. "Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical." - Yogi Berra
258. "It ain't over 'til it's over." - Yogi Berra
259. "Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what it most truly is, is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps." - Willie Mays
260. "I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar." - Bob Lemon
261. "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
262. "In baseball and in business, there are three types of people. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened." - Tommy Lasorda
263. "The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder." - Derek Jeter
264. "Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it’s about love, integrity, and respect." - Pat Gillick
265. "Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again." - Bob Feller
266. "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
267. "Half the lies they tell about me aren't true." - Yogi Berra
268. "There may be people that have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do." - Derek Jeter
269. "The only thing you should force in a swing is the minds of the people watching it." - Babe Ruth
270. "I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats." - Yogi Berra
271. "Hitting is an art, but not an exact science." - Rod Carew
272. "Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa." - Casey Stengel
273. "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
274. "If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more." - Sammy Sosa
275. "It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays." - Yogi Berra
276. "Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders." - Ted Williams
277. "It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square." - Pete Rose
278. "The two most important things in life: good friends and a strong bullpen." - Bob Lemon
279. "The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love." - Bryant Gumbel
280. "The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know." - Mickey Mantle
281. "Baseball is the only place where a man can succeed three out of ten times and be considered a good performer." - Ted Williams
282. "There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain." - Casey Stengel
283. "Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game." - Babe Ruth
284. "Baseball is a man maker." - Al Spalding
285. "Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal." - Pete Rose
286. "Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast." - Joe Garagiola
287. "The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers." - Earl Weaver
288. "I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game." - Walt Whitman
289. "Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray." - Joe Garagiola
290. "Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field." - Juliana Hatfield
291. "Baseball is a game of inches." - Branch Rickey
292. "Baseball is a game of peaks and valleys. The good players are the ones who can navigate the valleys." - Tom Seaver
293. "Don't think you're too big to hustle. Hustle makes the great players great." - Pete Rose
294. "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run." - Babe Ruth
295. "Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball." - Jim Murray
296. "The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead." - Babe Ruth
297. "Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours." - Yogi Berra
298. "The only way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up." - Bob Uecker
299. "You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life." - Pete Rose
300. "The key to winning is pitching, especially with power. Power arms will carry you over the speed bumps of a season." - Nolan Ryan
301. "Baseball is a game of inches." - Bob Gibson
302. "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
303. "We know we're better than this, but we can't prove it." - Tony Gwynn
304. "The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be." - Bill Lee
305. "A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings." - Earl Wilson
306. "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
307. "It's hard not to be romantic about baseball." - Billy Beane
308. "Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world." - Babe Ruth
309. "There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball." - Bill Veeck
310. "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
311. "Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again." - Jackie Robinson
312. "Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true." - Dale Murphy
313. "Baseball is a game of failure, coached by negative people, in a misinformed culture." - Tom House
314. "Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand." - Leo Durocher
315. "Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living." - Phil Linz
316. "Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average." - Mark Kramer
317. "Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical." - Yogi Berra
318. "You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball." - Cal Ripken Jr.
319. "Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona." - George F. Will
320. "Baseball is about having a short memory and a lot of forgetfulness." - Greg Maddux
321. "In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game." - Earl Weaver
322. "The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball." - Babe Ruth
323. "There's no crying in baseball." - Tom Hanks
324. "A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings." - Earl Wilson
325. "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
326. "I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to keep playing baseball." - Pete Rose
327. "The key isn't the 'will to win'... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important." - Bob Knight
328. "It ain't over 'til it's over." - Yogi Berra
329. "Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out." - Ty Cobb
330. "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." - Yogi Berra
331. "The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by. It's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again." - James Earl Jones, 'Field of Dreams'
332. "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 plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." - Earl Weaver
333. "I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats." - Yogi Berra
334. "Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too." - Yogi Berra
335. "The other teams could make trouble for us if they win." - Yogi Berra
336. "You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain." - Leo Durocher
337. "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
338. "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
339. "Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror." - George Carlin
340. "Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on." - Peter Ueberroth
341. "I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be." - Frank Robinson
342. "It's a beautiful day for a ballgame... Let's play two!" - Ernie Banks
343. "Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa." - Casey Stengel
344. "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
345. "Baseball life is a tough life on the family." - Nolan Ryan
346. "You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go." - Yogi Berra
347. "There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens." - Tommy Lasorda
348. "I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice." - Casey Stengel
349. "I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar." - Bob Lemon
350. "If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired." - Leo Durocher
351. "I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile." - Tom Clark
352. "Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray." - Joe Garagiola
353. "Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually." - Curt Schilling
354. "I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it." - Rogers Hornsby
355. "Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off. The right pitch will come, and when it does, be prepared to run the bases." - Rick Maksian
356. "The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
357. "The echoes of cheers are still resounding in my ears, and I love them so." - Jackie Robinson
358. "The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know." - Mickey Mantle
359. "You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball." - Cal Ripken Jr.
360. "Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world." - Babe Ruth
361. "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run." - Babe Ruth
362. "I'd rather be lucky than good." - Lefty Gomez
363. "When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball." - Pete Rose
364. "Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what it most truly is, is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps." - Willie Mays
365. "A baseball fan has the digestive system of a billy goat. He can, and does, devour any set of diamond statistics with insatiable appetite and then nuzzles hungrily for more." - Arthur Daley
366. "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
367. "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
368. "I'd rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the one who sold it." - Wilbert Robinson
369. "It takes a lot of hard work and dedication just like any pro sport. Especially for beach volleyball, you don't have to be tall or as fast as other sports. You just have to have the skills." - Misty May-Treanor
370. "To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything." - Willie Stargell
371. "I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great." - Joe Posnanski
372. "The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder." - Derek Jeter
373. "Next to religion, baseball has furnished a greater impact on American life than any other institution." - Herbert Hoover
374. "Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game." - Ted Williams
375. "Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion." - Bill Klem
376. "Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species." - Melvin Maddocks
377. "Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain." - Paul Auster
378. "Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success." - Sparky Anderson
379. "This ain't a football game, we do this every day." - Earl Weaver
380. "Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection." - Red Smith
381. "Don't 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
382. "I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game." - Walt Whitman
383. "Baseball is a game of inches." - Branch Rickey
384. "Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest." - Ty Cobb
385. "When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch." - Al Spalding
386. "The game of baseball is great, but the greatest part is the human part." - Billy Martin
387. "Baseball is a man-maker." - Al Spalding
388. "When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove." - Vance Law
389. "Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona." - George F. Will
390. "Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred entity dedicated to the demoralization of mankind." - Jackie Robinson
391. "The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen." - Bob Lemon
392. "Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts." - Tommy Lasorda
393. "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
394. "There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball." - Bill Veeck
395. "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
396. "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
397. "In baseball, you don't know nothing." - Yogi Berra
398. "Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things." - Robert Frost
399. "Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical." - Yogi Berra
400. "The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers." - Earl Weaver
401. "Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect." - Pat Gillick
402. "Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing." - Warren Spahn
403. "The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love." - Bryant Gumbel
404. "The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely." - Ted Williams
405. "Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a plan and execute it, there's no guarantee." - Walt Weiss
406. "Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated." - Anonymous
407. "I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats." - Yogi Berra
408. "It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays." - Yogi Berra
409. "When they start the game, they don't yell, 'Work ball.' They say, 'Play ball.'" - Willie Stargell
410. "The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day." - Gabe Kapler
411. "Hitting is 50% above the shoulders." - Ted Williams
412. "You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." - Jim Bouton
413. "The only way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up." - Bob Uecker
414. "The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid." - Don Drysdale
415. "Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand." - Leo Durocher
416. "I see the ball, I hit the ball." - Vladimir Guerrero
417. "Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." - Babe Ruth
418. "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 damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." - Earl Weaver
419. "Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster." - Joe Adcock
420. "The most important pitch is the next one." - Greg Maddux
421. "You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball." - Cal Ripken Jr.
422. "Half of this game is ninety percent mental." - Danny Ozark
423. "Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball." - Ken Harrelson
424. "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run." - Babe Ruth
425. "A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end, it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." - Bruce Sutter
426. "I never realized that hitting the ball was as fun as striking people out." - Randy Johnson
427. "The hardest thing in the world to do is to hit a round object with another round object." - Wade Boggs
428. "The best possible thing in baseball is winning the World Series. The second best thing is losing the World Series." - Tommy Lasorda
429. "Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you." - Arnold Palmer
430. "Baseball is a man maker." - Al Spalding
431. "You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball." - Cal Ripken, Jr.
432. "The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three-run homers." - Earl Weaver
433. "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
434. "There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens." - Tommy Lasorda
435. "Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical." - Yogi Berra
436. "I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice." - Casey Stengel
437. "Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out." - Ty Cobb
438. "Nobody has ever called Shea Stadium a cathedral. In style, it was more like the old warehouse or outdated movie theater that Korean worshippers have transformed into a church in the borough of Queens." - George Vecsey
439. "The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds." - Casey Stengel
440. "Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps." - Willie Mays
441. "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
442. "Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'" - Mickey Mantle
443. "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
444. "The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know." - Mickey Mantle
445. "The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time." - James Earl Jones
446. "I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball." - Pete Rose
447. "It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth
448. "The other sports are just sports. Baseball is love." - Bryant Gumbel
449. "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
450. "I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen." - Bob Lemon
451. "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
452. "Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field." - Juliana Hatfield
453. "Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in." - Casey Stengel
454. "There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain." - Casey Stengel
455. "Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually." - Curt Schilling
456. "Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball." - Jim Murray
457. "Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain." - Paul Auster
458. "Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona." - George F. Will
459. "Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast." - Joe Garagiola
460. "Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal." - Pete Rose
461. "Baseball is a game of inches." - Branch Rickey
462. "You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life." - Pete Rose
463. "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
464. "When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game." - Joe DiMaggio
465. "I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it." - Rogers Hornsby
466. "Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts." - Tommy Lasorda
467. "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base." - Dave Barry
468. "Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out." - Ty Cobb
469. "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
470. "Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion." - Ernie Harwell
471. "Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm." - George H. W. Bush
472. "Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words." - Ernie Harwell
473. "Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical." - Yogi Berra
FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) on MLB Baseball Motivational Speeches
1. What is the purpose of motivational speeches in MLB baseball?
Motivational speeches in
MLB baseball serve to inspire and energize the players. They can instill a
sense of unity, determination, and focus, helping players perform at their best
2. Who typically gives these speeches?
Coaches, team leaders,
and sometimes guest speakers give motivational speeches. These individuals have
the experience, knowledge, and leadership skills to inspire the team
3. What is the content of a typical motivational speech in MLB baseball?
Motivational speeches in
baseball often focus on teamwork, determination, resilience, and the love of
the game. They may draw on personal experiences, historical games, or legendary
players for inspiration
4. Do these speeches actually impact the performance of the players?
Yes, motivational
speeches can have a significant impact on the mindset and performance of
players. They are designed to inspire, energize, and instill a winning mindset
in the team
5. How often are these motivational speeches given?
The frequency varies
based on the team's needs. They may occur at the beginning of the season,
before a big game, or whenever the team requires a morale boost
6. Are these speeches unique to baseball?
No, motivational speeches
are common in all sports. The specific content and delivery may vary, but the
goal is the same: to inspire and motivate
7. Can I find these speeches online?
Yes, many motivational
speeches, especially those by well-known figures, can be found online through
various platforms
8. Who are some famous MLB players known for their motivational speeches?
Players like Babe Ruth,
Jackie Robinson, and Mickey Mantle were known for their motivational words,
along with coaches like Casey Stengel and Tommy Lasorda
9. How long are these speeches usually?
The length of
motivational speeches varies, but most are between 5 to 15 minutes to maintain
the attention and interest of the players
10. How important are these speeches to the team morale?
Very important. These
speeches can significantly impact team morale, fostering unity, resilience, and
a winning mindset
11. Can these speeches help in overcoming a losing streak?
Absolutely. A powerful
motivational speech can reignite the team's spirit and confidence, helping them
to overcome a losing streak
12. Do other team staff members, besides the coach, deliver motivational speeches?
Yes, sometimes team
leaders, managers, or even veteran players may deliver motivational speeches to
inspire their teammates
13. Are there any speeches that are considered legendary in MLB history?
Yes, there are numerous
speeches that have become part of MLB folklore due to their impact, such as Lou
Gehrig's "Luckiest Man" speech and Kirk Gibson's pregame pep talk
before Game 5 of the 1988 World Series
14. Are motivational speeches only for the players?
While the primary
audience is often the players, motivational speeches can also inspire coaches,
staff, and even fans
15. Are these speeches always serious?
The tone can vary. Some
speeches are serious, while others might include humor or light-hearted stories
to engage the audience and lighten the mood
16. Are motivational speeches in baseball scripted?
Not always. While some
speakers may prepare notes or a full script, others might speak
extemporaneously
17. Can motivational speeches be harmful?
Generally, motivational
speeches are beneficial. However, if delivered poorly or with the wrong
message, they could potentially demoralize rather than motivate
18. Do players always respond positively to these speeches?
While the intent is
positive, individual responses can vary. Some players may feel highly
motivated, while others might not be as affected
19. Are motivational speeches only delivered at the professional level?
No. Coaches and team
leaders at all levels, from Little League to college, often use motivational
speeches to inspire their teams
20. Can I use these speeches to motivate my local baseball team?
Absolutely. These
speeches can serve as excellent inspiration and can be adapted to suit your
team's specific needs
21. Do these speeches change according to the team's performance?
Yes, a speaker may tailor
the speech to the team's current situation, whether they're on a winning
streak, in a slump, or facing a crucial game
22. Are there any examples of motivational speeches affecting the outcome of a game?
There are numerous
anecdotal instances where a motivational speech significantly boosted the
team's morale and potentially influenced the game's outcome
23. Are there any special techniques used in delivering these speeches?
Techniques can vary by
speaker, but generally, they involve a combination of storytelling, direct
encouragement, relevant examples, vivid imagery, and sometimes humor
24. Can fans give motivational speeches to the players?
While fans don't
typically give speeches to the players directly, their enthusiasm and support
can serve as a form of motivation for the team. So, their presence is essential
to creating an inspiring atmosphere during games
25. How do players react to motivational speeches before a game?
Players may respond with
increased energy, focus, and determination after hearing a motivational speech
before a game. It can help them get into the right mindset to perform their
best on the field. However, every player is different, and some may not show a
visible reaction but still be positively affected by the speech.
26. Do players ever give motivational
speeches to themselves?
Yes, self-motivation is
crucial in sports. Players may use techniques like positive self-talk or
visualization to inspire themselves before a game or during tough moments in a
game
27. Can motivational speeches have a lasting impact on players?
Absolutely. A powerful
and well-delivered motivational speech can leave a lasting impression on
players, helping them stay motivated and focused not just for one game but
throughout the season
28. Are there any famous coaches or managers known for their motivational speeches?
Tommy Lasorda, Casey
Stengel, and Yogi Berra are some well-known coaches and managers who were also
known for their motivational speeches
29. Are there any books or resources on inspirational speeches in baseball?
Yes, there are various
books and online resources that compile famous and impactful motivational
speeches in baseball, along with tips on delivering effective speeches. Some
examples include "Motivational Baseball Speeches: The Complete Collection"
by Jim Stovall and "The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak
Performance" by H.A. Dorfman and Karl Kuehl. These resources can be
beneficial for coaches, players, and anyone looking to improve their
motivational speaking skills.
30. Are there any organizations or
programs focused on teaching motivational speaking in sports?
Yes, there are
organizations and programs such as the Positive Coaching Alliance and The
Mental Game Workshop that offer resources and training for coaches and athletes
on how to deliver effective motivational speeches. These organizations
recognize the importance of motivation and positivity in sports performance and
provide valuable tools for individuals to improve their skills. So, if you're
looking to hone your skills as a motivational speaker, these resources could be
beneficial. In conclusion, motivational speeches have been an integral part of
the baseball culture and can play a significant role in inspiring and uplifting
players, coaches, and fans
31. What should be the length of a motivational speech?
The length of a
motivational speech can vary depending on the situation. Some might only be a
few minutes, while others could be longer. The key is to convey the message
effectively and inspire the listeners, regardless of the speech's duration
32. Are motivational speeches given at every game?
Not necessarily. The
timing of motivational speeches can depend on various factors, such as the
team's performance, the importance of the game, or the team's morale
33. How can a coach learn to deliver powerful motivational speeches?
Coaches can learn to
deliver powerful motivational speeches through practice, studying other
successful speeches, and seeking feedback. Some coaches may also choose to
attend workshops, read books, or seek guidance from experienced motivational
speakers
34. Are motivational speeches only relevant in team sports?
No. Motivational speeches
can be beneficial in individual sports as well. A well-delivered speech can
help an athlete stay focused, boost their confidence, and enhance their
performance
35. Can motivational speeches negatively affect a player?
In general, motivational
speeches are designed to inspire and uplift. However, if delivered improperly
or with a negative tone, they could potentially have the opposite effect,
causing stress or anxiety. Therefore, it's essential to tailor the speech in a
positive and encouraging manner
36. Are the effects of motivational speeches measurable?
The effects of
motivational speeches can be challenging to measure quantitatively, as they
influence players' mental and emotional states. However, qualitative indicators
such as player feedback, performance improvement, and team morale can provide
valuable insights
37. Are motivational speeches given only before the game?
While pre-game speeches
are common, motivational speeches can also be delivered at halftime, post-game,
or during team meetings. The timing can depend on the team's needs and the
coach's strategy
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