As an Englishman, I don't really know much about Baseball, but I have been doing a series of hubs about funny quotes. Having already covered Golf, Soccer and Tennis..... I turned my attention to Baseball. So here you have it, some very Funny Baseball Quotes.

1. "Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases." - John W. Raper

2. "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." - Mickey Mantle

3. "You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth." - Mickey Mantle

4."I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats." - Bill Veeck

5. "The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it." - Casey Stengal

6. "It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." - Hank Aaron

7. "People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.00." - Pete Incaviglia

8. "I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does." - Joe Garagiola

9. "If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, "Sorry, Mom," but nobody beats me." - Leo Durocher

10. "If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond." - Clint Hurdle

11. "The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided." - Casey Stengal

12."I knew when my career was over. In 1965, my baseball card came out with no picture." - Bob Uecker

13. "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." - Al Gallagher

14. "Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical." - Yogi Berra

15. "They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ballgames." - Casey Stengel

16. "Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand." - Leo Durcoher

17. "Baseball is religion without the mischief." - Thomas Boswell

18. "A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings." - Earl Wilson

19. "Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot." - Dick Gregory

20. "With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions." - Pete Rose

21. "A baseball park is the one place where a man's wife doesn't mind his getting excited over somebody else's curves." - Brendan Francis

22. "Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster." - Joe Adcock

23. "You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possible be in baseball and in life." - Pete Rose

24. "Life is like a baseball game. When you think a fastball is coming, You gotta be ready to hit the curve." - Jaja Q

25. "Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalised for too many players on the field." - Jim Boulton