“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
“The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.” – Earl Weaver
“Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it’s about love, integrity, and respect.” – Pat Gillick
“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
“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
“Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.” – Babe Ruth
“The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.” – Bryant Gumbel
“Baseball is more than a game. It’s like life played out on a field.” – Joe Garagiola
“Baseball is a team game, but at the same time, it’s a very lonely game: unlike in soccer, for example, 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
“Coaching is not how much you know. It’s how much you can get players to do.” – Bill Parcells
“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
“Baseball is a red–blooded sport for red–blooded men. It’s no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.” – Ty Cobb
“Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.” – Grantland Rice
“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
“Baseball is a game of failure. It’s tough. If you can’t hit, you get humbled real quick.” – Billy Butler
“Baseball is like a love affair. If you don’t make the mental commitment to your lady, you’re going to be bouncing around. It’s not good.” – Ron Washington
“The only game I care about is the game we’re playing right now.” – Whitey Herzog
“The game of baseball is made up of many small things.” – Duke Snider
“The best possible thing in baseball is winning the World Series. The second best thing is losing the World Series.” – Tommy Lasorda
“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
“If you don’t have dreams, you don’t have anything.” – Dusty Baker
“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
“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.” – Ernie Harwell
“Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life are possible within it.” – Bruce Catton
