"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

 
"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."
Ralph Houk

"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster."
Joe Adcock

"Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far... They don't have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes."
Bobby Bonilla
"Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbers go for base hits. It's an unfair game."
Ron Kanehl [Baldham Boars]

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.  ~Bob Lemon
 

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times.  I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times.  You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season.  That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.  ~Mickey Mantle, 1970
 

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, quoted in New York Times, 9 July 1979