Famous Baseball Quotes That Inspire Greatness

Success is no accident; it's hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing.—Pelé

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.—Michael Phelps

It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.—Vince Lombardi

I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.—Michael Jordan

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.—Tim Notke

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.—John Wooden

The only way to prove you're a good sport is by losing.—Ernie Banks

You've got to expect things of yourself before you can do them.—Michael Jordan

Excellence is never an accident; it's always the result of high intention.—Aristotle

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'—Muhammad Ali

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.—Steve Jobs

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.—Vince Lombardi

It's how you respond to failure that defines you.—Babe Ruth

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.—Babe Ruth

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.—Henry Ford

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.—Henry Ford

It’s not how hard you hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.—Rocky Balboa

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.—Confucius

I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I have been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.—Michael Jordan

Fall seven times, stand up eight.—Japanese Proverb

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.—Warren Buffett

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.—Winston Churchill

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'—Mary Anne Radmacher

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.—Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.—Derek Jeter

I always wanted to be the best player I could possibly be.—Cal Ripken Jr.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.—Tom Seaver

I never looked at the possibilities. I only looked at the probabilities.—Sandy Koufax

I never thought of myself as being great. I just tried to work hard every day.—Greg Maddux

I played the game hard. That was the most important thing to me.—Tony Gwynn

The key to success is to keep growing. You stop growing, you start dying.—Pete Rose

Respect the game, respect your teammates, and respect your opponents.—Jackie Robinson

I don't believe in pressure. I believe in preparation.—Johan Cruyff

I'm not afraid of failure. I'm afraid of not trying.—Ken Griffey Jr.

The best ability is availability.—Lou Gehrig

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.—Phil Jackson

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.—Michael Jordan

Leadership is communication. If you can't get your message across, you're not leading.—Tony Dungy

The most important pitch in baseball is the next one.—Tom Seaver

Discipline is doing what needs to be done when nobody wants to do it.—Vince Lombardi

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.—Billie Jean King

The job of a coach is to make players believe in themselves.—Pat Summitt

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.—Jim Rohn

A champion is someone who gets up even when he can't.—Jack Nicklaus

If you want to be the best, you have to do things other people aren't willing to do.—Larry Bird

The will to win is not nearly so important as the will to prepare to win.—Vince Lombardi

Success isn't owned; it's leased, and rent is due every day.—J.J. Watt

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.—Yogi Berra

It ain't over till it's over.—Yogi Berra

I really didn't say everything I said.—Yogi Berra

You can observe a lot by watching.—Yogi Berra

It gets late early around here.—Yogi Berra

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

Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.—Yogi Berra

It's déjà vu all over again.—Yogi Berra

I usually take a two-hour nap after lunch, and wake up confused.—Homer Simpson

Baseball was, is, and always will be to me the best game in the world.—Babe Ruth

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes—only sooner.—Tallulah Bankhead

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.—Earl Wilson

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.—Michael Jordan

There is no 'I' in team.—Anonymous

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.—Helen Keller

Teamwork makes the dream work.—John C. Maxwell

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.—Henry Ford

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.—Mattie Stepanek

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.—Phil Jackson

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.—Ryunosuke Satoro

None of us is as smart as all of us.—Ken Blanchard

Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.—Mike Schmoker

The best teamwork comes from individuals who are working independently toward one goal in unison.—James Cash Penney

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.—Steve Jobs

The will to win is not nearly so important as the will to prepare to win.—Vince Lombardi

Success is never accidental.—Pelé

The more I practice, the luckier I get.—Gary Player

Champions are made when nobody is watching.—Julius Erving

I hate practice, but I love what practice does for me.—Kevin Durant

Preparation is the key to success.—Alexander Graham Bell

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work.—Stephen King

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.—Thomas Edison

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.—Vidal Sassoon

The expert in anything was once a beginner.—Helen Hayes

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.—Benjamin Franklin

I'm not talented enough to rely on talent alone.—Kobe Bryant

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.—Walter Elliot

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.—Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.—Confucius

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.—Thomas Edison

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.—Paramahansa Yogananda

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.—Washington Irving

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a hard one.—Bruce Lee

Strength does not come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't.—Rikki Rogers

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.—Michael Jordan

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.—Tony Robbins

Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.—John Wayne

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.—Eleanor Roosevelt

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.—Dwight D. Eisenhower

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.—Ronald Reagan

Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.—John C. Maxwell

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.—Ralph Nader

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.—Martin Luther King Jr.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.—Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.—Warren Bennis

You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.—Ken Kesey

The price of greatness is responsibility.—Winston Churchill

The task of the leader is to get his people from their present position to a higher position.—Henry Kissinger

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.—John C. Maxwell

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.—Peter Drucker

Baseball is the only game you can watch on the radio.—Will McDonough

The only religion that survives is the church of baseball.—Crash Davis

Baseball is a game of inches.—Tommy Lasorda

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.—John C. Maxwell

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.—Seneca

The only thing you can control is your effort.—Albert Pujols

It's not how much you have, it's how much you enjoy.—Charles Warner

The game isn't over until it's over.—Yogi Berra

You play the game right, and the results will follow.—Joe Torre

Baseball teaches you how to handle failure.—Jim Palmer

There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.—Casey Stengel

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.—Babe Ruth