“The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.” -Gaylord Perry
“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
“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
“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
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base." -Dave Barry
"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
"The only thing my father & I have in common is that our similarities are different." -Dale Berra
"I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want somebody else to go chase it." -Roger Hornsby
"Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed." -Bill Veeck
"If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball." Sam Rutigliano
"The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever." -Herb Caen
"Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help." -Hank Aaron
"I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly decided they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression." -Casey Stengel