Baseball Quotes

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
- Casey Stengel

All I have is natural ability.
- Mickey Mantle

Always play a game with somebody, never against them. Always win a game, never beat an opponent.
- Andrew Bailey

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.
- Alvin Dark

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
- John Fowles

Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
- W. P. Kinsella

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
- George Bernard

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
- Bill Veeck

Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity.
- Commissioner Bowie Kuhn