Top 100 Baseball Player Sayings
#1. [In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.
Eric Gagne
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. I'm merely a baseball player, guys, ... In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance.
John Rocker
#5. 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
#6. Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
Sherman Alexie
#7. Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.
Shemar Moore
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.
Branch Rickey
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. You can learn a lot from a professional baseball player, if you can get one, which obviously you can't.
Dimitra Ekmektsis
#18. Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional baseball player instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.
Casey Kasem
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.
William Alexander
#22. 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
#23. I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.
John Kruk
#24. I love sports. If I could be a baseball player I would. I just am not good at it at all.
Eric Hutchinson
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. Anytime you put a baseball player in a suit and take him out of his element its uncomfortable.
Paul Konerko
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.
Bryce Harper
#32. 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
#33. Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.
Bradley Whitford
#35. I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.
Mickey Mantle
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player.
Marsha Warfield
#39. I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.
Ben Chandler
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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?"
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J. Sterling
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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.
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.
Jim Courier
#54. I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.
John Kruk
#55. I'm trying to be the best baseball player I can, to learn from what I see and get better every day.
Giancarlo Stanton
#56. Basketball was always my sport. It just took me until my second year of college for me to realize that I was a better baseball player than a basketball player. But basketball was always my number one love. Finally found out I was better at baseball and chose to pursue that route.
Curtis Granderson
#57. If you gave me a choice between being married and being a baseball player, that's a no-brainer. I would be married any day. I just love it.
Lance Berkman
#58. Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both.
Graig Nettles
#59. When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?
Sydney J. Harris
#60. I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.
Willie Mays
#61. He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact.
Dan Quisenberry
#62. I never became a cowboy or baseball player, and now I'm beginning to wonder if I ever really became a writer. I find that I hesitate to put that label on myself, to define myself by what I do for a living.
Jerry Spinelli
#63. I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.
Gerald R. Ford
#64. I had a client who was a professional baseball player once, and he would go to clubs and dance for seven, eight, nine hours at a time. He wouldn't drink, he wouldn't take drugs - he just danced because he had so much physical energy; he was this amazing athlete.
Martha Beck
#65. Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.
Dave Winfield
#66. Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything.
Doug Harvey
#67. I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
Willie Mays
#68. I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.
Martha Stewart
#69. I don't think special attention should be given to an actor or a singer or a baseball player or a soccer player more than anyone else, but they do have an opinion like anyone else.
Viggo Mortensen
#70. The only dream I've ever had is to become a major league baseball player.
Mark Teixeira
#71. I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.
Roberto Clemente
#72. I had a lot of fear that would motivate me to try to work hard, because I didn't know what I would do if I wasn't a baseball player.
R.A. Dickey
#73. Orioles fought with tigers, blue jays battled against angels, bear cubs warred with giants, and none of it made any sense. A baseball player was a man, and yet once he joined a team he was turned into an animal, a mutant being, or a spirit who lived in heaven next to God. According
Paul Auster
#74. It (a baseball box score) doesn't tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your father voted in the last election. It just tells what kind of baseball player you were on that particular day.
Branch Rickey
#75. You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?
John McGraw
#76. Sometimes when I've got a baseball player alone, I'll just read Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman to him. And the guys are so sweet, they always stay and listen. Course, a guy'll listen to anything if he thinks its foreplay.
Ron Shelton
#77. I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.
Curt Schilling
#78. My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.
James Caan
#79. When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#80. I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don't know if I could have played any other position. As a catcher, you're always on the ball.
Tim DeKay
#81. When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both.
Graig Nettles
#82. I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.
Eric Idle
#83. I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
Jose Canseco
#84. I won't walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck. I am superstitious about everything.
Lauren Groff
#86. I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.
Carlos Delgado
#87. Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
Dan Quisenberry
#88. I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.
John Malkovich
#89. Wait. Don't we even get a say in this?" James is supposed to be a macho, baseball player. Why is he such a whiny douche? "What? You want us to take a vote?" That
Roxas James
#90. Fifteen minutes in the majors means you're a great baseball player," said Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland - who never got his fifteen minutes above the Triple-A level. "People just can't understand how good you have to be to get there at all.
John Feinstein
#91. I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, "Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability."
Geena Davis
#92. I'm a baseball player. Not being able to play baseball certainly was a lonely thing.
Hideki Matsui
#93. I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid.
Bryan Cranston
#94. I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
Bryce Harper
#95. All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#96. All the time, I think positive things about baseball. That's always how you do it. I'm a baseball player-that's all I want to do, all the time, be better and better.
Rafael Soriano
#97. Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#98. I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.
Pete Rose
#99. He was also a terrific baseball player. That's what had helped him refine his waist: tens of thousands of reps twisting to swing a bat.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#100. I never expectedto lose in court. In practice, I did lose, of course. Every lawyer loses, just as every baseball player makes an out severy percent of the time he goes to bat.
William Landay
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