In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher’s hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.
~Duke Snider
It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
~Babe Ruth
OK, we won a game yesterday. If we win today, it’s called “two in a row”. And if we win again tomorrow, it’s called a “winning streak”… It has happened before!
~Lou Brown, Major League II
I don’t know what it was. I don’t ever remember not loving baseball.
~Justin Verlander
I’m not a big guy and hopefully kids could look at me and see that I’m not muscular and not physically imposing, that I’m just a regular guy. So if somebody with a regular body can get into the record books, kids can look at that. That would make me happy.
~Ichiro Suzuki
Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.
~Rickey Henderson
I don’t break bats, I wear ’em out.
~Josh Gibson
Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. The goal is not to win every game but to win more than you lose, and if you do that often enough, in the end you may find you have won it all.
~Harold S. Kushner
When you pull it off and finally achieve it, it’s a beautiful thing. The individual goals are great, but when you win that World Series it’s special. They can’t take that away from you.
~Fred McGriff
Nobody ever became a champion by playing it safe.
~John McGraw
