Ball player Quote by Michael Lewis

If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.

— Rickey Henderson

“...baseball freely admits that the sport--like civilized society--is crawling with bums.”

— Dan Gutman

“Phrases and images from the game filtered through his head... hitting the sweet spot, working the rosin bag, over the bat, going deep, in…

— J.D. Ruskin

Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player.

— Marsha Warfield

Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching…

— Thomas Boswell

I know that baseball players have certain rituals or habits that they develop, because sometimes it becomes somewhat superstitious if they get on a…

— Chadwick Boseman

“The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.”

— Glenn Dickey

Anytime you put a baseball player in a suit and take him out of his element its uncomfortable.

— Paul Konerko

“When I began playing the game, baseball was as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.”

— Ty Cobb

“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

Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved…

— Thomas Boswell

Baseball is a lot like the ivy-covered wall of Wrigley Field--it gives off a great appearance, but when you run into it, you discover…

— Hank Aaron