Top 100 Baseball Player Sayings
#1. The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.
Ty Cobb
#2. [In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.
Eric Gagne
#3. The Big Hurt describes me perfectly-not as a person, but as a player. It's what I do to a baseball.
Frank Thomas
#4. In regards to core training, I try to incorporate the medicine ball whenever possible. As a baseball player, there is a lot of twisting and turning that I will do. Keeping my abs strong is as important as anything else.
Albert Pujols
#5. Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.
Casey Stengel
#6. The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#7. Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
Casey Stengel
#8. I'm merely a baseball player, guys, ... In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance.
John Rocker
#9. I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.
Ryne Sandberg
#10. Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
Sherman Alexie
#11. Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.
Shemar Moore
#12. When you hear from other players and they're telling you you're the best pitcher in baseball, that makes you feel really good.
Johan Santana
#13. That's what I love about acting. There's never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can be a baseball player, you can be whatever you want in the acting world. I think I've found my calling.
Ryan Guzman
#14. I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.
David Cone
#15. It needs to be said, over and over again, that Stan the Man was voted by 'The Sporting News' as the best baseball player of the postwar decade, from 1946 through 1955.
George Vecsey
#16. Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
Alvin Dark
#17. If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
Mickey Spillane
#18. I am very excited to be included in the very first college baseball Hall of Fame class. For me to be honored with these coaches and players that I have grown to admire and respect is very special. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone in Lubbock.
Skip Bertman
#19. I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.
Mike Piazza
#20. I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle.
Gabe Paul
#21. It's always exciting that you can rub elbows with some of the greatest players who have ever played the game, and just being around the "family" again from baseball.
Rickey Henderson
#22. I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.
Muddy Waters
#23. We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.
Branch Rickey
#24. People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.
Pete Incaviglia
#25. You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.
Mike Piazza
#26. I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history..
Willem De Kooning
#27. I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family. But it's always been that way for me; nothing has come easy.
Shemar Moore
#28. Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.
Thomas Boswell
#29. Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.
Leo Durocher
#30. I am and will always be just simply a basball [sic] player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.
Jose Canseco
#32. I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
Ichiro Suzuki
#33. Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified.
George Vecsey
#34. You can learn a lot from a professional baseball player, if you can get one, which obviously you can't.
Dimitra Ekmektsis
#35. It's hard to dismiss the obvious symmetry between Longo [Evan Longoria] and the franchise for which he's now the poster-child: for the player, Hondo Junior College to MLB All-Star ... for the team, worst to first.
Tucker Elliot
#36. Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional baseball player instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.
Casey Kasem
#37. It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.
Joe Garagiola
#38. Then he put that one down behind a framed sepia-tone picture of a baseball player named Cecil Travis and picked up another one and tilted it back to his lips.
Tom Wolfe
#39. Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.
William Alexander
#40. I developed a term that is used in the game right now called sacking a quarterback. Sacking a quarterback is just like you devastate a city or you cream a multitude of people. I mean it's just like you put all the offensive players in one bag and I just take a baseball bat and beat on the bag.
Deacon Jones
#41. Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player's uniform. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.
Jacqueline Leo
#42. After a play in the field Casey would turn (to the players on the bench) and say 'What did he do wrong?' or 'You're better than that guy.' Either way, he'd keep them from getting stale.
Mickey Mantle
#43. I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.
John Kruk
#44. All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.
Tobin Bell
#45. I love sports. If I could be a baseball player I would. I just am not good at it at all.
Eric Hutchinson
#46. When I went blind at 13, I realized that I wasn't going to be a good baseball or basketball player like I enjoyed before. It forced me to look beyond the obvious, to things that I could still do well.
Erik Weihenmayer
#47. There's not a pill or an injection that's going to give me, going to give any player the hand-eye coordination to hit a baseball.
Mark McGwire
#48. Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.
Phil Knight
#49. Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.
Mickey Mantle
#50. I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.
John Malkovich
#51. I think I have a pretty goofy profile for a writer. It seems to me most writers were reading 'Little Women' when they were 6 months old. At the age of a lot of my readers, I wanted to be a major league baseball player. I didn't read much.
Jerry Spinelli
#52. I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.
Ryan Guzman
#53. Anytime you put a baseball player in a suit and take him out of his element its uncomfortable.
Paul Konerko
#54. If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.
John McGraw
#55. When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.
Masaharu Morimoto
#56. There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.
Michael Lewis
#57. I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
Action Bronson
#58. It will revolutionize baseball. It will open a new area of alibis for the players.
Gabe Paul
#59. As much as we disliked the Yankees, fans and players alike, they were good for baseball. They consistently unsuccessful teams like the Browns, Senators, and A's paid a lot of their bills with those big crowds that poured through the gates when the Yankees came to town.
Bob Feller
#60. I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.
Michael Cera
#61. He (Buck Showaleter) never even smelled a jock in the big leagues. Mr. Baseball never even got a hit in Triple-A. I was a better player than him, I have more money than him and I'm better looking than him.
Ozzie Guillen
#62. A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment.
Jim Lefebvre
#63. I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.
Bryce Harper
#64. I'm a character actor. I have to find work in good movies where I can make something of my role. I'm a very lucky guy to be in that kind of position. It's like a kid who dreams of becoming a baseball player and then he gets to play for the Yankees ...
Christopher Walken
#65. Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.
Bradley Whitford
#67. No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. He's the best I've ever seen.
Ryne Sandberg
#68. I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.
Mickey Mantle
#69. I don't think there's any player that's more talented than Alex Rodriguez. He cares very deeply about doing well. Baseball is his life. He puts a lot of pressure on himself.
Joe Torre
#71. No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.
Pete Rose
#72. When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But something within me told me that was not going to happen.
Tom Wolfe
#73. I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'
Joe Garagiola
#74. There is a double-standard between men and women. My father was a major league baseball player, and I grew up thinking I could have the same attitude on the field that he did. When I did that in real life, people thought I was a total bi-atch.
Katie Uhlaender
#75. No former player has owned a team in baseball.
Derek Jeter
#76. I'm half-Italian and my name is Portuguese. Michael Young is half-Mexican. There are players from the United States that have heritage elsewhere and it's a great thing to have a world cup to celebrate the whole world. It shows the world that baseball is important and how great the game is.
Mark Teixeira
#77. Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player.
Marsha Warfield
#78. I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.
Ben Chandler
#79. A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly.
Phil Jackson
#80. I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45 when he played baseball.
Jerry Reinsdorf
#81. I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar guy at one of those pitch-and-throw kind of things. I have a pretty good arm for somebody who's not a baseball player.
Ben Gibbard
#82. As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
Mickey Mantle
#83. I used to think it would be neat to play my whole career with one team. But as a baseball player you want to come to the ballpark every day knowing you have a chance to win and that the games mean something.
Carlos Beltran
#84. I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to.
Bob Dylan
#85. I have never discussed a player contract with an agent and I like to think I never will.
Walter O'Malley
#86. I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.
Daniel Sunjata
#87. Everybody wants to be a professional baseball player and, sure, as a kid, I wanted to do that. But once I got cut from my high school team, I figured there wasn't much chance of that ever happening. I'm still in awe of it.
Mark Buehrle
#88. Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it.
Paul Ormerod
#89. How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.
Jason Giambi
#90. If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?
Jack Welch
#91. Part of my identity for as long as I can remember is being a baseball player. If I'm not that anymore, then who am I?"
"Who do you want to be?"
"Harry Potter
J. Sterling
#92. I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.
Joe Namath
#93. That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
Willie Mays
#94. I find that rock climbing is the finest, most healthiest sport in the whole world. It is much healthier than most; look at baseball, where 10 000 sit on their ass to watch a handful of players
John Salathe
#95. It is nice to have the fans recognize you, not because it makes you feel like a big-time player, but because they enjoy watching baseball and they like watching us play. It's going to get even better being here. Pretty soon, the city could be one of the best places to play.
Ryan Zimmerman
#96. I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#97. When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten. Then I wanted to be a baseball player. Preferably shortstop for the New York Yankees.
Jerry Spinelli
#98. I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. (Babe) Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is to golf. He got the game moving. But I can't believe he could run as well as (Willie) Mays, and I can't believe he was any better an outfielder.
Sandy Koufax
#99. I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.
Nolan Ryan
#100. I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
Al Pacino
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