Top 24 Great Baseball Player Quotes
#1. I'm merely a baseball player, guys, ... In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance.
John Rocker
#2. We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.
Branch Rickey
#3. 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
#4. That is the accursed thing about small surroundings
they make the soul small.
Henrik Ibsen
#5. When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.
William Hazlitt
#6. Your job is to meet the right people and read the right books.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#7. God, as much as I've needed your power to kill the Enemy, I need your power to fix me. It's not enough that power goes out from me; I need the power of God to work in me.
Louie Giglio
#8. You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.
William Dean Howells
#9. 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
#10. In terms of myself, I said from the very beginning that I wanted to work in the management of Citigroup and I didn't want to be a CEO, ... That's not what I want to do with myself at the moment.
Robert Rubin
#11. 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
#12. 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
#15. Viola De Lesseps: You have never spoken so well of him before.
William Shakespeare: He was not dead before.
Marc Norman
#16. Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.
Lois Lowry
#17. 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
#18. I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.
Tupac Shakur
#19. Yeah," he says. "We've been friends since kindergarten. Funniest guy I know," Matt says with a chuckle. "He's a great guitar player, too. He's in a band with some guys from Omaha South. He keeps trying to get me to join."
"What do you play?" I ask.
"Baseball," Matt jokes.
Cat Patrick
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. If you don't have an emotionally engaging design for a device, no one will care about it.
Tony Fadell
#24. It is a horrible wonderful thing to be in love with you. To get to hear you sing for hour after hour but never be the subject of the song. To listen and listen and listen.
David Levithan
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