Humble Quotes from Baseball Legends

A blog dedicated to the best quotes from baseball legends. These humble quotes provide inspiration and motivation for all.

Babe Ruth

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”

“I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or miss big. I like to live as big as I can.”

Yogi Berra

Yogi Berra was an American professional Baseball Catcher who later took on the roles of manager and coach. He played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), all for the New York Yankees He was an 18-time All-Star and won 10 World Series championships as a player, making him the only player in MLB history with that double distinction. Berra had a career batting average of .285, while hitting 335 home runs and 1,430 runs batted in. He is one of only four players to win the American League Most Valuable Player Award three times. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest catchers in baseball history and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.

“It ain’t over till it’s over.”

“I never said most of the things I said.”

“If you don’t know where you’re going, you might wind up someplace else.”

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

“You can observe a lot just by watching.”

Lou Gehrig

“I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”

“Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about bad news. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.”

Jackie Robinson

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”

-Jackie Robinson

Ty Cobb

“Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what it most truly is, is embedded in the American spirit.” – Ty Cobb

Hank Aaron

“My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.”

“The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.”

“If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.”

“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.”

Stan Musial

“There’s only one way to become a hitter. Go up there swinging.” – Stan Musial

“I’m not going to be easy to beat.” – Stan Musial

“You gotta be a man to play baseball You gotta have a body made of steel and a temperament made of stone.” – Stan Musial

Willie Mays

“There are three types of baseball players those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.” – Willie Mays

Willie Mays was born in Westfield, Alabama, on May 6, 1931. He was one of twelve children and grew up in a poor family. Mays’ father, Cat Mays, was a talented semiprofessional baseball player and taught his son all he knew about the game. Willie played his first organized game at the age of eight and by the time he was thirteen he was good enough to play on his father’s semipro team.

Roberto Clemente

“If you have the opportunity to do something good for somebody else, not only are you going to feel good about it, they’re going to appreciate it and maybe feel motivated to do the same thing.”

-Roberto Clemente

Sandy Koufax

Sandy Koufax was a basketball and Baseball Star at Brooklyn’s Lafayette High School He was good enough in basketball to be courted by the NBA’s Syracuse Nationals but he turned them down, deciding to focus on baseball. It wasn’t until he graduated from high school in 1954 that he began to focus on pitching, and he spent that summer honing his skills in the Catskills.