So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
Bo Jackson

I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.
Bo Jackson

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
Bo Jackson

Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.
Bo Jackson

So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
Bo Jackson

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.
Bo Jackson

There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.
Tommy Lasorda

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
Tommy Lasorda

I wanted to play baseball!
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.
Derek Jeter

I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.
Martha Stewart

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
Mickey Mantle

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.
Mickey Mantle

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.
Mickey Mantle

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
Mickey Mantle

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
Mickey Mantle

I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.
Nolan Ryan

I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.
Nolan Ryan

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
Nolan Ryan

For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.
Nolan Ryan