25 Baseball Quotes

Be encouraged by these baseball quotes to your life. Find inspiring quotes from players, coaches and others who have written about the sport.

Baseball is a game that must be played in a team. The efforts of one person are useless without the effort of all the players. Much like life, we can not live a fulfilling life without the involvement and relationships of others.

You will find that while these quotes may be referring to baseball they have just as much application if we apply them to our lives.

Life is like a baseball game. When you think a fastball is coming,
you gotta be ready to hit the curve. Jaja Q

Life is like a baseball game. When you think a fastball is coming, you gotta be ready to hit the curve. Jaja Q
Inspirational Quotes about Life

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong. Derek Jeter, Baseball Player
Motivational Quotes for Work

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

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, Baseball Shortstop
Inspirational Quotes

Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical. Yogi Berra
Famous Quotes

A true champion is someone who wants to make a difference, who never gives up, and who gives everything she has no matter what the circumstances are. A true champion works hard and never loses sight of her dreams. Dot Richardson
Make A Difference

Every day is a new opportunity.

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
New Day

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100 percent dedication, you won’t be able to do this. Willie Mays
Dedication

Show me a guy whose afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time. Lou Brock
Cute Quotes

It isn’t hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day. Willie Mays
Sports

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve.
Find another way. Satchel Paige

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. Satchel Paige
Giving Up

The prayer I say before I go and there and pitch is not “God, let me win today” or “God, help me pitch good.” It’s “God, be with me.” Clayton Kershaw. Player
Prayer

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination. Tommy Lasorda, Baseball player
Determination

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. Satchel Paige

Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you. Satchel Paige
Funny Quotes

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. Babe Ruth
Team

“What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time.” Don Zimmer, Major League Baseball Infielder, Manager, and Coach
Hustle

Self-confidence is the first step toward success. If you believe it, you can achieve it. Tommy Lasorda, Member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame
Self Confidence

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear,
you must deal with the best. Barry Bonds

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.Barry Bonds, Player
Best

Baseball is a sport of failure … the most successful batters fail seventy percent of the time and the most successful teams have to endure sixty losses or more each season. To succeed in baseball, you must learn not how to avoid failure, but how to quickly bounce back from it – with optimism and perseverance. Darrin Donnelly, Relentless Optimism
Failure

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.Derek Jeter
Work

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

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be
- in baseball and in life. Pete Rose

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be – in baseball and in life. Pete Rose
Best Motivational Quotes

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn’t going to win any more games by being anything else.Earl Weaver
Optimistic

Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common. Satchel Paige
Quote of The Day

Life is not a spectator sport. If youï¿½re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.Jackie Robinson, Player
Sad Quotes about Life