Inspirational Baseball Quotes

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen. ~ Desiderius Erasmus

God, I hope I wear this jersey forever. ~ Derek Jeter

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun ... It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. ~ Ty Cobb

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. ~ Joe Garagiola

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence. ~ Greg Maddux

Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball. ~ Woodie Held

If it weren't for Jesus, I would not be where I am today and my life would be without purpose. I've heard kids say they want to be just like me when they grow up. They should know I want to be just like Jesus. ~ Albert Pujols

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts. ~ Tommy Lasorda

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or small-town teams ~ Jacques Barzun

I remember the last season I played. I went home after a ballgame one day, lay down on my bed, and tears came to my eyes. How can you explain that? It's like crying for your mother after she's gone. You cry because you love her. I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball, and I knew I had to leave it. ~ Willie Mays

It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder to lose one. ~ Chuck Tanner

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings. ~ Bill Veeck

I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery. ~ Ty Cobb

It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy. ~ Plato

You didn't play baseball that well with two hands. How do you think you're going to make it with one?
"If you're just going to tell me what I can't do, you can leave. ~ Mary Jane Auch

It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~ George Eliot

Listening can heal wounds. ~ Sean Covey

Dare to Stand Alone ~ Thomas S. Monson

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk. ~ Nora Roberts

I find that often simple words say all that needs to be said in less time, using less energy, with all the details wanted- fully in tact. Love it. ~ Sereda Aleta Dailey

If life is a joyful serious journey, then peace should be the train and happiness should be the destination. ~ Debasish Mridha

At least if I am to die, then it would be as someone I can look in the mirror. ~ Elise Kova

It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone. ~ David Baldacci

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. ~ Oliver Goldsmith

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for. ~ T.H. White

Every giant tree started its life journey being a Seed. Seed your mind today with beautiful thoughts and it will grow into a tree of wisdom ~ Mohammed Mushtaq GK

Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life! ~ Steve Maraboli

Life is like a cooking pot. If you cook something good, you well get something tasty. If you cook something bad, you will get something bad. ~ Debasish Mridha

The one thing I always said to myself was that when baseball started to feel more like a job, it would be time to move forward. ~ Derek Jeter

I used to think that unconditional love meant loving someone who wronged me. I never thought it could mean loving someone who is not so easy to like or doesn't make me feel good. ~ Esther Hizsa

I once heard someone say that prayer is more than words. It's a stance you take, a position you claim. You throw your body against the door to keep the demons from advancing and stay put until they go away. ~ Regina Brett

Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team. ~ Yann Martel

When you think no one sees you and you are so clouded in your messy state that you begin to think maybe just maybe even GOD is fed up. Know this: He sees the tears, collects them, pays you double for them, fortifies you with encouragement even through them and He will lift up your spirit. ~ TemitOpe Ibrahim

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end ~ John Bunyan

He knew sometimes some fear can be good. When you are afraid things are going to get worse if you don't do something, it can prompt you into action. But it is not good when you are afraid that it keeps you from doing anything. ~ Spencer Johnson

People that criticize the harshest usually are the ones who would trade places the fastest ~ Gary Hopkins

In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans' organizations, and the entire citizenry will wish to join hands in the common purpose. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Love the broken.
Lift the fallen.
Care for the barren. ~ Debasish Mridha

Forgive your own parents for their mistakes. Forgive them for not being able to be the parents you needed. Forgive them for being unconscious, and free your soul from pain. You aren't your past. You aren't your childhood. Your childhood is gone, but you have today. ~ Ani Kapanadze

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will. ~ Pope Paul VI

Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.) ~ Saloma Miller Furlong

Just surrender to the story. ~ A.D. Posey

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance. ~ Pythagoras

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased. ~ Joel Osteen