Funny Baseball Quotes

“The game of baseball has now become beyond question the leading feature of the outdoor sports of the United States”. - Charles A. Peverelly. Baseball is not only the national game of the USA, but a popular game worldwide. The baseball craze first hit the USA in the 1850s and since then the game has gained significant popularity. Baseball is a ball game played between two teams and is played in a diamond shaped field where four bases are located at four corners. The size of the diamond varies from sixty feet to ninety feet. In the game, the ball is hit by a bat and run is scored by the hitter after hitting the ball and touching the bases. The fielders of the other team try to stop the hitter from scoring runs. A professional baseball game consists of nine innings. If you are a diehard baseball fan, then read through the following section to enjoy some funny baseball quotations.

• "Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases." -John W. Raper
• "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." - Mickey Mantle
• "You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth." - MickeyMantle
• "I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats." -Bill Veeck
• "The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it." - Casey Stengal
• "It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." - Hank Aaron
• "People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.00." - Pete Incaviglia
• "I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does." - Joe Garagiola
• "If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, "Sorry, Mom," but nobody beats me." - Leo Durocher
• "If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond." - Clint Hurdle
• "The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided." - Casey Stengal
• "I knew when my career was over. In 1965, my baseball card came out with no picture." - Bob Uecker
• “People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring”.-Rogers Hornsby
• “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
• “A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz”.-Humphrey Bogart
• “Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up”.-Bob Lemon
• “This is nothing. I've got nine writers standing here. McGwire had 200 writers when he had 30 home runs”.-Barry Bonds
• “Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports”.-Gen. Omar Bradley
• “When we lost I couldn't sleep at night. When we win I can't sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling better”. - Joe Torre
• “The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely”. -Ted Williams