#1 Quote in the World

"Don't give up, don't ever give up."

Jim Valvano

Top 11 Quotes of all time

Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.
Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy.

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

Losers visualize the penalties of failure, but winners visualize the rewards of success.

Baseball Quotes "My Attitude"

"The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting."

"As long as I can compete, I won't quit. Reaching three-thousand is not the finish line as long as I can contribute."

"I'd like to be remembered. I'd like to think that someday two guys will be talking in a bar and one of them will say something like, 'Yeah, he's a good shortstop, but he's not as good as ole Ripken was."

"I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball."

"If I could sleep. I could hit .400."

"When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth."

"Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game."

"At all those banquets, stars get up and give credit to their coaches and parents. I give credit to no one. I made myself what I am today."

"When I played, they didn't use fancy words like that (emotionally distressed). They just said I couldn't hit."

"Above anything else, I hate to lose."

"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being."

"You forget about it whether it was 15-2 or 3-2. It's still a loss. It doesn't matter what the score was if we win tomorrow."

"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."

"I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love."

“This is what i live for, to play baseball”

"When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered."

"I play for the Indians."
"Here in Cleveland? I didn't know they still had a team."
"Yup, we've got uniforms and everything, it's really great!"

"My job is to give my team a chance to win."

"One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something."

“I see the hitter when he's moved in the box, like when he's moved closer to the plate or changed his stance. I see when the batter has moved his feet, and then I make my own adjustment.”

“Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.”

“There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.”

“A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.”

“Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.”

“I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.”


“When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.”

"I'm not used to seeing the ball go wherever she wants. As a pitcher, I like to be — I don't want to say perfect, but I want to know what the ball is going to do."

"I think the good Lord is a Yankee."

“When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.”

“Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa.”

“I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice.”

“Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?”

“Strikeouts are boring - besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls. More Dramatic.”