A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
Branch Rickey

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.
Christy Mathewson

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.
Christy Mathewson

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.
Rogers Hornsby

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

But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.
Curt Flood

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.
Branch Rickey

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

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

I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give.
Roberto Clemente

I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.
Joe DiMaggio

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

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

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

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
Mickey Mantle

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

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
Lou Gehrig

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

The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.
Bill Lee

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