“That’s the beautiful thing about baseball. You can be any size and be successful.” – Andrew Benintendi

“I played my best every day. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.” – Joe DiMaggio

“It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career.” – Carlton Fisk

“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 7 years without ever hitting the ball.” – Mickey Mantle

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Babe Ruth

“People out there said I was too small. It’s those kinds of moments that pushed me to be where I’m at right now.” – Tim Lincecum

“You may not think you’re going to make it. You may want to quit. But if you keep your eye on the ball, you can accomplish anything.” – Hank Aaron

“Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you just have to try not to get too high or too low.” –  Chase Utley

“You can’t get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.” – Mike Piazza

“Close don’t count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.” – Frank Robinson

“I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.” – Reggie Jackson

“When you’ve learned to believe in yourself, there’s no telling how good a player you can be. That’s because you have the mental edge.” – Rod Karew

“That’s the beautiful thing about baseball. You can be any size and be successful.” – Andrew Benintendi.

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” – Jackie Robinson.

“You may not think you’re going to make it. You may want to quit. But if you keep your eye on the ball, you can accomplish anything.” – Hank Aaron.

“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.

“Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.” – Yogi Berra.

“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.” – Lou Brock.

“In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing.” – Hank Aaron.

“Never allow the circumstances of your life to become an excuse. People will allow you to do it. But I believe we have a personal obligation to make the most of the abilities we have.” – Jim Abbott.

“I want people to expect more from me because I expect more. If you don’t set goals high, you’re not trying.” – Todd Helton.

Play this game like the 8-year-old you used to be, dreaming to play in the show. Heart, passion, and fire! Remember where you came from.” – Bryce Harper.

“My motto was always to keep swinging.” – Hank Aaron.

“A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.” – Mickey Mantle.

“There may be people that have more talent than you, but there is no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.” – Derek Jeter.

“Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson.

“Everybody makes mistakes; that’s why they put erasers on pencils.” – Tommy Lasorda.

“Hustle is just playing the game right.” – Jimmy Rollin.

“Never give up. Don’t cave.” – Jim “The Rookie” Morris.

“Work hard and have patience.” – Randy Johnson.

“You either get better, or you get worse. Those are the only two options.” – Max Scherzer.

“Don’t ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure.” – Joe Maddon.

“Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.” – Curt Schilling.

“No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.” – Ted Williams.

“Baseball is such a tough game. It really humbles you at times; you just have to try not to get too high or too low.” – Chase Utley.

“I was told I would never make it because I’m too short. Well, I’m still too short, but I’ve got 10 All-Star games, two World Series championships, and I’m a very happy and contented guy. It doesn’t matter what your height is; it’s what’s in your heart.” – Kirby Puckett.

“Never allow the circumstances of your life to become an excuse. People will allow you to do it. But I believe we have a personal obligation to make the most of the abilities we have.”

– Jim Abbott.

“Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.” – Yogi Berra.

“You don’t need to have a perfect ending to be happy.” – Prince Fielder.

“Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.” – Wade Boggs.

“Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson.

“Load up your mind with pictures capturing your preferred tomorrow. Put the remembrances of the past in a place where they won’t block your view.” – Gary Carter.

“When you’ve learned to believe in yourself, there’s no telling how good a player you can be. That’s because you have the mental edge.” – Rod Karew.

“If you expect greatness, greatness shouldn’t surprise you.” – Justin Verlander.

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” – Jackie Robinson.

“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.” – Jacques Barzun.

Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I’ll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.

“Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.”

“Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.”

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.”

“Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.”

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”

“How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball… The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I’ve got–I hit big, or I miss big–I like to live as big as I can.”

“Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?” 

“All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.”

“All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout, and they ask me what it was I hit, and I tell them I don’t know except it looked good.”

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.

I love baseball.  You know, it doesn’t have to mean anything.  It’s just very beautiful to watch.

I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.

I love baseball and I don’t want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it.

I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.

I love baseball.  You know, it doesn’t have to mean anything.  It’s just very beautiful to watch.

I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.

I love baseball and I don’t want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it.

I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

“A man has to have goals – for a day, for a lifetime – and that was mine, to have people say, ‘There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.”
Ted Willams

There’s almost nothing worse than spending an entire day anticipating watching a Yankees vs. Red Sox game, only to have the score be 9-0 in the third inning.”

Tucker Elliot

“It was one at bat during October 1975 that defined his [Joe Morgan’s] place in baseball history and secured the legacy of the Big Red Machine, all with one swing.”

Tucker Elliot

“It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ball players. Baseball is not an obvious game.”

Roger Kahn

“Deep down, it’s all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.”

Vernon D. Burns

“If there are any curses left in baseball, they are all on the north side of Chicago.”

Tucker Elliot

“More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.”

Thomas Boswell