No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
Casey Stengel

When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.
Mike Krzyzewski

I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.
Satchel Paige

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
Satchel Paige

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
Hank Aaron

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
Babe Ruth

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
Babe Ruth

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
Babe Ruth

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
Bill Vaughan

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.
Derek Jeter

When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.
Joe DiMaggio

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
Bo Jackson

I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.
Bo Jackson

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
Bo Jackson

I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.
Bo Jackson

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
Bo Jackson

Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.
Bo Jackson

So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
Bo Jackson

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.
Bo Jackson