Baseball Sayings ⚾ in 2025

Close don’t count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Winning is a habit, Success is a choice

Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.

Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.

Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.

A hitter’s impatience is the pitcher’s biggest advantage.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

I won’t be active in the day-to-day operations of the club at all.

I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats.

Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical. 

OUT HUSTLE, OUT WORK, OUT THINK, OUT PLAY, OUTLAST

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded.

In baseball, you can’t kill the clock. You’ve got to give the other man his chance. That’s why this is the greatest game.

If my uniform doesn’t get dirty, I haven’t done anything in the baseball game.