Ballplayer Quotes

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

Marriage, Tried, Golden

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

Good, Home, Bad

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

Old, Between, Difference

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

Cool, Keep, Head

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.
Mickey Mantle

Best, Happen, Play

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

Give, Gave, Remembered

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

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

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.
Bob Uecker

Car, Parents, Game

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

Help, Win, Give

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

Good, Power, Game

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

Good, Everything, Enough

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

American, Kids, Sign

My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.
Danny Aiello

Father, Play, Ball

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

Great, Chance, Player

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

Time, Problem, Biggest

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

Time, Sports, School

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.
Honus Wagner

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

Here, Major, League

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.
Barry Zito

Life, Interests, Refuse

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

Game, Hard, Special

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

Respect, Long, Confidence

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

Happiness, Game, Real

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

Love, Him, Else

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.
Dwight Gooden

Good, Bad, Father

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

Great, Him, Trying

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

Woman, Spring, Young

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

Business, Two, Keep

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