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  • A ballplayer doesn't make excuses. -- Roberto Alomar
  • I'm a ballplayer, not an actor. -- Joe DiMaggio
  • A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance. -- Branch Rickey
  • There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer. -- Honus Wagner
  • How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer. -- Branch Rickey
  • I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give. -- Roberto Clemente
  • The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be. -- Bill Lee
  • Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist. -- Rogers Hornsby
  • Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was. -- Mickey Mantle
  • To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer. -- Mickey Mantle
  • The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all. -- Lou Gehrig
  • I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something. -- Andy Warhol
  • I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence. -- Barry Zito
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 other way. -- Joe DiMaggio
  • 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 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero. -- Charlie Sheen
  • 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. So I gave up reading. -- Babe Ruth
  • 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 a member of our special fraternity. -- George Brett
  • The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back. -- Steve Garvey
  • If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer. -- Willie Mays
  • 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 I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth. -- Roger Maris
  • When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named Louis Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century. -- Joe Posnanski
  • I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder. -- Chad Harbach
  • Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that. -- Nomar Garciaparra
  • 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 game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud. -- Bob Uecker
  • A pitcher is not a ballplayer. -- Christy Mathewson
  • Im not an Athlete, Im a ballplayer -- John Kruk
  • I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. -- Red Auerbach
  • Gehrig had one advantage over me. He was a better ballplayer. -- Gil Hodges
  • In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer. -- Joe DiMaggio
  • My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad. -- Dwight Gooden
  • I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter. -- Mickey Mantle
  • On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived. -- Nellie Fox
  • I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give. -- Roberto Clemente
  • If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve. -- Nellie Fox
  • The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you. -- Casey Stengel
  • A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater. -- Christy Mathewson
  • I think what separates a superstar from the average ballplayer is that he concentrates just a little bit longer. -- Hank Aaron
  • I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart. -- Red Auerbach
  • No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today. -- Ty Cobb
  • (Bill) Terry, you can ask for more money in the winter and do less in the summer than any ballplayer I know. -- John McGraw
  • If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body. -- Roberto Clemente
  • I haven't put on a baseball uniform since about age 12. It's like I'm wearing a Halloween costume. I'm pretending to be a ballplayer. -- Ken Fox
  • Man, I've got a Rolls-Royce. Big house. Limo. All those things. This is why every kid's dream is to be a major-league ballplayer. -- Lou Whitaker
  • I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing. -- Casey Stengel
  • 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 do know when you look at some ballplayer and all of a sudden he is the size of a truck something is wrong. -- Barry Levinson
  • A ballplayer has two reputations, one with the other players and one with the fans. The first is based on ability. The second the newspapers give him. -- Johnny Evers
  • I guess anytime you are mentioned with Hank Aaron, it is the ultimate compliment, not only as a hitter, but obviously, the great ballplayer that he was. -- Alex Rodriguez
  • 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 ballplayer - consistency. -- Don Mattingly
  • As a ballplayer, you just want to feel respected. I like the way Washington presented the team to me and I feel good about what was being said. -- Vladimir Guerrero
  • I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. Anybody who has a good shot has got to take it and keep taking it. So he misses...so what? -- Red Auerbach
  • 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 a member of our special fraternity." -- George Brett
  • I hate the ballplayer who says, 'I did everything I could have possibly done.' Because if you didn't win it all, you obviously didn't do everything you could have done. -- Todd Helton
  • I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station. -- Al McGuire
  • Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business. -- Warren Spahn
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