Ballplayers Quotes

31 quotes by 29 authors

Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are. — Earl Weaver
I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss. — Al McGuire
People will think there are no other great ballplayers. Look at Garnett. Look at Duncan, Shaq, Kobe. Look at the players with Sacramento. The have… — Oscar Robertson
What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned… — Bill Veeck
It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for… — Mike Royko
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. — Rex Stout
I have always been a firm believer that the game has never belonged to the owners. It has never belonged to the ballplayers. It belongs… — Johnny Vander Meer
Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work. — Charlie Gehringer
One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women. — John McGraw
All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it. — Dizzy Dean
The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that its different somehow. Its not… — Tony Oliva
I think that the game is the game. I think that expansion is good for the game because it gives more jobs to the people… — Tony Oliva
Any ballplayers that played for me on either the Cardinals or the Yankees could come to me if he were in need and I would… — Miller Huggins
Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that one of the ballplayers had… — Jim Bouton
Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you. — Leo Durocher
As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me. — D. B. Sweeney
I get tired of hearing my ballplayers bellyache all the time. They should sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves play. — Buzzie Bavasi
What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey… — Walter Dean Myers
Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told. — Bum Phillips
All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill. — Babe Ruth

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