Ballplayer Quotes

58 quotes by 48 authors

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.… — Babe Ruth
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… — Charlie Sheen
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… — Bob Uecker
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a… — Mickey Mantle
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… — Roger Maris
If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are… — Willie Mays
As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again. — Roger Maris
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.… — George Kell
I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something. — Andy Warhol
When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named… — Joe Posnanski
The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy. — Tris Speaker
I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give. — Roberto Clemente
My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration. — Danny Aiello
The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all. — Lou Gehrig
But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer. — Curt Flood
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
The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be. — Bill Lee
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… — Joe DiMaggio

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