THE LOVE OF SPORTS has compiled a list of the top 20 baseball quotes of all-time.
8. Casey Stengel, Former Mets Manager
“Come out and see my Amazin’ Mets. I’ve been in the game a hundred years, but I see new ways to lose I never knew existed.”5. Yogi Berra, Former New York Yankee
“Slump? I ain’t in no slump. I just ain’t hittin’.”4. Ted Williams, Former Boston Red Sox
“All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks will say, ‘There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived.’”3. Jim Bouton, Former New York Yankee
“You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball; and in the end, it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.”2. Lou Gehrig, Former New York Yankee
“Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.”1. W.P. Kinsella, Author of “Shoeless Joe” (adapted to the screen as “Field of Dreams”)
“The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again.”
What’s great about this list is that no player is talking about money or trying to show someone up. All of these quotes are about the game – the way it should be.
