Top 68 Quotes About Ballplayer
#1. I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to ... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.
Frank Robinson
#2. I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give.
Roberto Clemente
#3. Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived.
Sam Crawford
#4. Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
Mickey Mantle
#5. During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
Mickey Mantle
#6. Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.
Rogers Hornsby
#7. When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named Louis Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century.
Joe Posnanski
#8. I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.
Chad Harbach
#9. No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.
Ty Cobb
#10. The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.
Bill Lee
#11. Has he (Rickey Henderson) ever been here (Spring Training) the first day? You have to say Rickey's consistent. That's what you want in a ballplayer - consistency.
Don Mattingly
#12. The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
Casey Stengel
#13. I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.
Red Auerbach
#14. On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived.
Nellie Fox
#15. To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.
Mickey Mantle
#17. A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.
Christy Mathewson
#18. Man, I've got a Rolls-Royce. Big house. Limo. All those things. This is why every kid's dream is to be a major-league ballplayer.
Lou Whitaker
#19. As a ballplayer, you just want to feel respected. I like the way Washington presented the team to me and I feel good about what was being said.
Vladimir Guerrero
#20. I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.
Andy Warhol
#21. The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
Lou Gehrig
#22. As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract.
Red Smith
#24. Gehrig had one advantage over me. He was a better ballplayer.
Gil Hodges
#25. Baseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives were at stake.
David James Duncan
#26. I don't know what Joe (DiMaggio)
wanted (in regards to being called 'the greatest living ballplayer'), but I don't have a problem, if he wanted to do that. He was my hero. Joe
was the best all-around player. Joe
was the best. I only played against him once, in the '51 Series.
Willie Mays
#27. A coach can't be concerned with the poor ballplayer. If the player can't make it, he's got to be out right away. It's a very tough aspect of coaching, and in this aspect I was weak. Also, some guys get fat on coaching, they get healthy and strong, but other guys get ulcers.
John McNally
#28. I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.
Roger Maris
#29. But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.
Curt Flood
#30. I always could hit, but fielding I had to work at. I took as much pride in fielding as hitting. I became a complete ballplayer. I knew when to take the extra base. I knew about the outfielder hitting the cutoff man. I knew when and how to bunt. I knew when to hit-and-run.
George Kell
#31. A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
Branch Rickey
#32. How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.
Branch Rickey
#33. A ballplayer has two reputations, one with the other players and one with the fans. The first is based on ability. The second the newspapers give him.
Johnny Evers
#35. If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.
Nellie Fox
#36. I'm just the same as anybody else now. To get TB again, I'd have to go out and catch a whole new case of it. Let's forget about it. I'm a ballplayer.
Red Schoendienst
#37. Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
Warren Spahn
#38. He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a ballplayer. Ty Cobb was the best. That seemed to be all he wanted.
Jimmy Cannon
#39. My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.
Dwight Gooden
#40. Im not an Athlete, Im a ballplayer
John Kruk
#41. I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
Al McGuire
#42. The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.
Ring Lardner
#43. I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.
Charlie Sheen
#44. I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.
Barry Zito
#45. A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
Jim Bouton
#46. You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that's why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn't even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer.
Barry Sanders
#47. If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.
Willie Mays
#48. I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing.
Casey Stengel
#49. As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.
Roger Maris
#50. I think what separates a superstar from the average ballplayer is that he concentrates just a little bit longer.
Hank Aaron
#51. I want everybody to feel he has a chance to get into a game when he comes to the ballpark. I play guys when I want to so they'll be ready when I have to. I don't consider myself a motivator of players. I think it's an insult to a ballplayer to have to be motivated.
Gene Mauch
#52. The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.
Steve Garvey
#53. Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
Babe Ruth
#54. Besides, he was also a hell of a ballplayer. THE END
Joseph Bottum
#55. I hate the ballplayer who says, 'I did everything I could have possibly done.' Because if you didn't win it all, you obviously didn't do everything you could have done.
Todd Helton
#56. I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.
Joe DiMaggio
#57. There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.
Honus Wagner
#58. Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.
Nomar Garciaparra
#59. I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear.
Red Auerbach
#60. I haven't put on a baseball uniform since about age 12. It's like I'm wearing a Halloween costume. I'm pretending to be a ballplayer.
Ken Fox
#61. (Bill) Terry, you can ask for more money in the winter and do less in the summer than any ballplayer I know.
John McGraw
#62. The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy.
Tris Speaker
#63. My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.
Danny Aiello
#64. I'm proud of everything that I've accomplished since I was a little boy. That was my dream - to be a ballplayer. I didn't dream to win so many Gold Gloves, or Silver Bats or play in All-Star Games or World Series. I was just dreaming to play the game.
Roberto Alomar
#65. I'm a ballplayer. I know how hard the game is ... and anybody that makes it in the Hall of Fame, I support. They become a member of our special fraternity.
George Brett
#66. I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.
Mickey Mantle
#67. I am just a ballplayer on vacation. Why are these things happening to me ?
Hal Graff
#68. In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
Joe DiMaggio
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