Ballplayer Quotes

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance. (Branch Rickey)
How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer. View quote
Branch Rickey
To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer. View quote
Mickey Mantle
Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was. View quote
Mickey Mantle
The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be. View quote
Bill Lee
A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater. View quote
Christy Mathewson
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. View quote
Frank Robinson
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. View quote
George Kell
There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer. View quote
Honus Wagner
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. View quote
Nomar Garciaparra
A ballplayer doesn't make excuses. (Roberto Alomar)
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. View quote
Roger Maris
Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist. View quote
Rogers Hornsby
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. View quote
Steve Garvey
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. View quote
Warren Spahn
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. View quote
Charlie Sheen
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. View quote
Babe Ruth
The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all. View quote
Lou Gehrig
I think I was the best ballplayer I've ever seen. I feel nobody in the world could do what I could do on a baseball field. I hope I'm not saying anything wrong, but you have to think you're the best. The next one would be Roberto Clemente. View quote
Willie Mays
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. View quote
Willie Mays
I ain't an athlete, lady. I'm a ballplayer. (John Kruk)
I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give. View quote
Roberto Clemente
People seem to find it hard to believe, but I'm a very serious person. It wasn't luck that I became a ballplayer. I never wanted to be anything else and I never considered anything else and I worked my tail off for it. To say that I don't have any worries or nerves is the opposite of the truth. I worry about not being able to get around on the fast ball any more, I worry about getting hurt and having to quit playing before my time. I worry about the bowling alley I own with Phil Rizzuto making money. I worry about keeping Carm happy so she won't be sorry she married me, about the kids growing up good, and about keeping out of trouble with God. I worry a lot. I'm nobody's mascot, either. Sure, I like to get along with people and I hope I've made friends, but that's different. View quote
Yogi Berra
Why should I be more ‘cautious, careful,' as you say? I stay in the big leagues as long as I do because I play only one way. I know I take too many, maybe. I know I should not sometimes dive for the ball-or hit the wall trying to catch it- as much as I do. But you catch the ball, you help your team. You don't catch it, you don't help your team. I believe playing, how you say, ‘all out' has prolonged my career. If a ballplayer starts loafing, he tends to lose that little push that is so necessary, so important. You get lazy, won't take even the smallest chance; kind of lose interest. Your rhythm, I guess it is, gets all messed up. Fly balls start falling on you, when they should not. And you find yourself not getting around on the ball like you should. Once you lose this ‘little push,' then it is awfully hard to get back in the groove... get yourself going again. Your ambition – desire – suffers. And you become the kind of ballplayer you don't want to be. View quote
Roberto Clemente
If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body. View quote
Roberto Clemente