I do know when you look at some ballplayer and all of a…

For me, I try to look at a person's swagger and a little background on them if I already haven't liked them as a…

— Michael Bivins

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

— Rogers Hornsby

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

— Christy Mathewson

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

— Mickey Mantle

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

“A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other…

— Jim Bouton

I don't really classify myself as a scorer. I'm a ballplayer; I'm a playmaker. I like to set people up and make the game…

— Paul George

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…

— Roberto Alomar

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…

— George Brett

I'm a ballplayer that knows himself, and I'm patient.

— Ronald Acuna Jr

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…

— Don Mattingly

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

— Roberto Clemente

Baseball shaded my entire outlook on life, because that's how I first saw the world. I looked at everything, even today, through what I…

— Kurt Russell

I think what separates a superstar from the average ballplayer is that he concentrates just a little bit longer.

— Hank Aaron

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

— Danny Aiello