I'm a ballplayer. Whoever picks me, I'm going to show up.

Whoever picks me up, I'm going to try and play my best for, to be the best player on the field at any given…

— Myles Garrett

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

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