Good Baseball Player Quotes

#1. I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.

John Malkovich

#2. I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.

Bryce Harper

#3. Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

Bradley Whitford

#4. Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

Edward Abbey

#5. When you've learned to believe in yourself, there's no telling how good a player you can be. That's because you have the mental edge.

Rod Carew

#6. Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw.

Michel Patini

#7. God bless ladies with costly, tasteful clothes and touching, dirty fingernails that champion gifted, foreign poets and decorate the library in beautiful, melancholy fashion! My God, this universe is nothing to snicker at!

J.D. Salinger

#8. 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

#9. Baseball players tend to have something like 20 good years in them and then around their mid-thirties they aren't in the same shape as the young guys in the league and kind of aren't worth as much. Then they retire before 40. And they are left floating adrift in the middle of the ocean.

Michael Cera

#10. In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises.

Wade Davis

#11. In music, you collaborate with people. It's supposed to be a mutually beneficial thing.

Kid Cudi

#12. 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

#13. I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign.

Nick Hornby

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. I love sports. If I could be a baseball player I would. I just am not good at it at all.

Eric Hutchinson

#22. Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.

Leo Durocher

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.

Sherman Alexie