Sayings | Quotes

“I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.” - Yogi Berra

“If people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?”

“I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.”

“Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.” - Joe DiMaggio

“I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.”

“I don’t like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn’t help but feel sorry for the pitcher.” - Rogers Hornsby

“In baseball, you don’t know nothing.”
“Take it with a grin of salt.”

“The game’s isn’t over until it’s over.”

“The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.”

“You can observe a lot just by watching.”

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

“I never want to quit playing ball. They’ll have to cut this uniform off of me to get me out of it.” - Roy Campanella

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort. ~Abba Eban

It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. ~Hank Aaron, 1971

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.
- Johnny Miller

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death. ~Sam Snead

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ~William Wordsworth

Golf is a game in which you yell “fore,” shoot six, and write down five. ~ Paul Harvey

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.
- Johnny Miller

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. ~Jack Benny

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards? ~ Al Boliska

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything. ~Michael Bamberger

One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot - the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something. ~Peter Jacobsen

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life. ~Grantland Rice

“Talking to a golf ball won’t do you any good. Unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off.” -Bruce Lansky

“If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.” -Jack Lemmon

“When I’m on a golf course and it starts to rain and lightning, I hold up my one iron, ‘caus I know even God can’t hit a one iron.” -Lee Trevino

“Why can’t they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, “Who’d you call a faggot?”

“Blood alone moves the wheels of history.”

“The way the Army does things is sometimes a little strange.”

“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.”

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War

In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them.
- Sun Tzu

“The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave…”

“A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons. ”

“Always forgive your enemies–nothing annoys them so much. “