A ball player has got to be kept hungry be become a big leaguer. That is why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.
~ Joe Dimaggio

A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate Who can see better than an umpire standing five feet away.
~ Anonymous

A full mind is an empty bat.
~ Branch Rickey

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.
~ Max De Pree

Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.
~ Jim Bouton

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
~ Leo Durocher

Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half if physical
~ Yogi Berra

Being an umpire is like being a king. It prepares you for nothing.
~ Ron Luciano

Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.
~ Robert Smith

Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it is a business.
~ Tommy Henrich

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.
~ Leo Durocher

Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.
~ Casey Stengel

Hit em where they ain't.
~ Willie Keeler

If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.
~ Roberto Clemente

If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's going to stop them.
~ Yogi Berra

If the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop them .
~ Yogi Berra

In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.
~ Anonymous

Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.
~ Casey Stengel

Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game.
~ Billy Martin

Ninety percent of this game is half mental.
~ Yogi Berra