This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains. 

Uh, Lord, hallowed be Thy name.  May our feet be swift; may our bats by mighty; may our balls… be plentiful.  Lord, I’d just like to thank You for that waitress in South Bend.  You know who she is – she kept calling Your name.  And God, these are good girls, and they work hard.  Just help them see it all the way through.  Okay, that’s it.  — Jimmy Dugan, A League of Their Own

If A is success in life, the A equals X plus Y plus Z.  Work is X; Y is play; and Z is keeping your mouth shut. — Albert Einstein

A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one. — Emily Post

Inspiration is that state in which mind and heart are connected. — Deepak Chopra 

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands — and then eat just one of the pieces.   — Judith Viorst, author and journalist

Oh, my dear little librarian. You pile up enough tomorrows, and you’ll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don’t know about you, but I’d like to make today worth remembering.   — Harold Hill (Robert Preston), The Music Man 

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.      — Albert Einstein

A word to the wise ain’t necessary; it’s the stupid ones who need the advice. — Bill Cosby

If you’re born in this world, you’re given a ticket to the freak show.  If you’re born in America, you’re given a front-row seat.  — George Carlin

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.  — Carl Sagan 

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.  — Winston Churchill 

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. — Mark Twain

If you’re not nervous about your passion, you’re not passionate about it. — Bobby Flay

Why love if losing hurts so much?  We love to know that we are not alone.  — C.S. Lewis

Let’s play two. — Ernie Banks

We don’t stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing. — George Bernard Shaw

The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up. — Bob Uecker, when asked how he caught for Phil Niekro

Man, if you gotta ask, you’ll never know. — Louis Armstrong, when asked to define jazz

Winning isn’t everything. WANTING to win is. — Catfish Hunter

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those that mind don’t matter, and those that matter don’t mind. — Dr. Seuss

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. — Stephen Covey

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. — Abe Lincoln

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. — Thomas Jefferson

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. — Albert Einstein

For myself, I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything else. — Sir Winston Churchill

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted. — John Lennon

A problem is a chance for you to do your best. — Duke Ellington

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. — Dandemis

What the hell — you might be right, you might be wrong… but don’t just avoid. — Katharine Hepburn

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. — Anatole France

It’s never too late to be what you might have been. — George Eliot

Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more… and all good things are yours. — Swedish proverb

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. — Ambrose Redmoon

Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Curiosity is the very basis of education, and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only that the cat died nobly. — Arnold Edinborough

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. — Dr. Seuss

Good for the body is work of the body, and good for the soul is work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. — Henry David Thoreau

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. — Lao Tzu

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. — Nelson Henderson

The things you remember most aren’t things. — from a credit card commercial!

The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round. — Gaylord Perry

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. –Benjamin Franklin

Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something. — Plato