Sayings about Ball Games
The ball always looks for the best player. ~ French Proverbs
It’s tough trying to keep your feet on the ground, your head above the clouds, your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel, your finger on the pulse, your eye on the ball and your ear to the ground. ~ Traditional Proverb
Keep your eye on the ball and your head in the game. ~ Traditional Proverb
Quotations about Ball Games
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half if physical. ~ Yogi Berra
Baseball is almost the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated. ~ Mark Beltaire
The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn’t move, kick it until it does. ~ Phil Woosnam
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. ~ Willie Mays
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field? ~ Jim Boulton
Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics. ~ Author Unknown
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.~ George F. Will
Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical. ~ Yogi Berra
Football is the opera of the people. ~ Stafford Heginbotham
Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.~ Heywood Hale Brown
Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words. ~ Ernie Harwell
A losing football team looks at excuses. A championship football team looks at solutions.~ Jimmy Johnson
Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park. ~ Daniel Okrent & Harris Lewine
Baseball is a team sport, encoding in its formula for success social and intellectual abilities that individual sports do not require. ~ Timothy Morris
Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. ~ Bryant Gumbel
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. ~ Jacques Barzun
The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.~ Bobby Robson
Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything. ~ Toby Harrah
In basketball — as in life — true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way. ~ Phil Jackson
Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one. ~ Phil Jackson
Weekends don’t pay as well as weekdays but at least there’s football. ~ S.A. Sachs
Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.~ Paul Brown
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall. ~ Vince Lombardi
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. ~ Joe Garagiola
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. ~ Red Auerbach
Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.~ Jimmy Breslin
Baseball crosses social barriers, creates community spirit, and is much more than a private enterprise. Baseball is a national pastime. ~ Harry Seymour
I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet. ~ Tom Tolbert
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off. ~ Bill Veeck
Academy: A modern school where football is taught.~ Ambrose Bierce
Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width. ~ Bill Veeck
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.~ Don Shula
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. ~ Paul Gallico
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. ~ Thomas Boswell
If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn’t be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds. ~ Irwin Shaw
Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove that you haven’t got what it takes. It never takes away the chance, and it never eases up on the pressure. ~ Joe Garagiola
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ~ John Leonard
Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world. ~ Bill Lee
You can’t think and hit the ball at the same time. ~ Yogi Berra
The only place you can win a football game is on the field. The only place you can lose it is in your heart.~ Darrell Royal
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
Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living. ~ Phil Linz
You can’t win without the ball. ~ Red Auerbach
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. ~ George Will
Baseball gives … a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker. ~ Al Spalding
Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up. ~ Bill Vaughn
Basketball is like photography, if you don’t focus, all you have is the negative. ~ Dan Frisby
Baseball is the only sport I know that when you’re on offense, the other team controls the ball. ~ Ken Harrelson
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. ~ Ted Williams
Football is to baseball as blackjack is to bridge. ~ Vin Scully
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Basketball is the MTV of sports. ~ Sara Levinson
Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror. ~ George Carlin
If basketball is checkers, baseball is chess–and the endless configurations of its statistics are quantum physics! ~ Liz Musiker
Football is not a contact sport; it’s a collision sport. Dancing is a good example of a contact sport. ~ Duffy Daugherty
Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. ~ Bob Lemon
Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus! ~ Deborah Wiles
Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport. ~ Philip Wrigley
Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past. ~ Albert Powers
They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me. ~ Earvin Johnson
Football doesn’t build character. It eliminates weak ones.~ Darrell Royal
The reason women don’t play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public. ~ Phyllis Diller
Well, boys, it’s a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~ Joe Schultz
Baseball isn’t a business, it’s more like a disease. ~ Walter F. O’Malley
Concerning football playing, I protest to you it may rather be called a friendly kind of fighting, rather than recreation. ~ Author Unknown
Football games aren’t won, they’re lost.~ Fielding Yost
There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power. ~ Leo Durocher
In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home. ~ George Carlin
The English public doesn’t really like Shakespeare; it prefers football. ~ Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.~ Bo Jackson
Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up. ~ Sharon Olds
Baseball is more than a game to me, it’s a religon. ~ William Joseph Klem
Soccer is a game in which everyone does a lot of running around. Twenty-one guys stand around and one guy does a tap dance with the ball. ~ Jim Murray
In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department. ~ Author Unknown
Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become. ~ Mary McGrory
Baseball is a game that boys play for fun and men play for keeps. ~ Barney Mann
If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.~ Fran Tarkenton
The way you get better at playing football is to play football.~ Gene Brodie
Baseball is a game of inches. ~ Branch Rickey
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. ~ James Naismith
See the ball; hit the ball. ~ Pete Rose
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you too. ~ Roy Campanella
Baseball is purer than life; it’s symmetrical, fair, and dignified. There’s no debating what happened: it happened. ~ Marvin Cohm
The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that’s it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.~ Ty Cobb
Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys. ~ Oscar Wilde
Baseball? It’s just a game — as simple as a ball and a bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It’s a sport, business — and sometimes even religion. ~ Ernie Harwell
There’s nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren’t going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.~ Woody Hayes
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. ~ Yogi Berra
There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens. ~ Tommy Lasorda
In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are. ~ Arnold H. Glasow
Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand. ~ Leo Durocher
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. ~ George Bernard Shaw
I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous comes a lot of demands. ~ Yao Ming
Confucius say: “Baseball wrong – man with four balls cannot walk.” ~ Author Unknown
Take nothing for granted in baseball. ~ Harry Pulliam
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.~ Bill Shankly
Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal. ~ Pete Rose
Football is like life — it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.~ Vince Lombardi
Baseball is such a game of hope. Anything can happen–and often does–usually in the most tension-filled times. ~ Peter Doumit
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.~ Frank Gifford
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball. ~ Jim Murray
Good ballplayers make good citizens. ~ Chester Alan Arthur
