Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical." - Yogi Berra

 

• Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical." - Yogi Berra

• "It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square." - Pete Rose

• "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

• "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination." - Tommy Lasorda

• "You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first." - Fred Wilpon

• "I've always felt that long, lazy summer days were an integral part of the baseball season." - Tom Glavine

• "A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings." - Earl Wilson

• "Baseball is not a game that builds character, it is a game that reveals it." - John Thorn

• "Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand." - Leo Durocher

• "The first thing a man has to learn in order to play baseball well is to catch a ball." - Christy Mathewson

• "The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose." - Ernie Banks

• "Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing." - Warren Spahn

• "A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that." - Reggie Jackson

• "You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first." - Fred Wilpon

• "A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings." - Earl Wilson

• "You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." - Yogi Berra

• "There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit." - Al Gallagher

• "The game of baseball, in a nutshell, is this: you throw the ball, you hit the ball, you catch the ball." - Joe Garagiola

• "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

• "I love baseball. The guys and the game, and that's that." - Mickey Mantle

• "Baseball is a game that is different from any other." - George Vecsey

• "Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what iy most truly is, is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps." - Willie Mays

• "Baseball is a game where a man can be himself, in every sense of the word, from the first pitch of the season to the last out of the World Series." - Phil Rizzuto

• "Baseball is a game that breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." - A. Bartlett Giamatti

• "Baseball is an allegorical play about America, a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage, fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate, and sober self-esteem." - Saul Steinberg

• "Baseball is a game that is uniquely American. It is a game that is about the journey, not the destination." - George Vecsey

• "Baseball is a game of inches. The ball is just a little bit harder to hit than a golf ball." - George Brett

• "Baseball is a game where the players and fans all wear the same uniform of hope." - Unknown

• "Baseball is a game of inches, and inches make the champion." - Branch Rickey

• “As I grew up, I knew that as a building (Fenway Park) was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid at Giza, the nation’s capitol, the czar’s Winter Palace, and the Louvre — except, of course, that is better than all those inconsequential places” - Bart Giamatti