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Ballplayers, like everyone else, like to get told they did something right. -- Willie McCovey
Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages. -- Jimmy Cannon
Ballplayers are a superstitious breed, nobody more than I, and while you are winning you'd murder anybody who tried to change your sweatshirt, let alone your uniform. -- Leo Durocher
Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their malarkey and winnowed their wisdom for years. -- Thomas Boswell
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
People in real life don't get ballplayers' humor, the way we talk in the clubhouse. -- Justin Verlander
All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill. -- Babe Ruth
The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. -- Reggie Jackson
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. -- Rex Stout
All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it. -- Dizzy Dean
If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers? -- Doug Harvey
It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now. -- Mickey Gilley
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
I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit. -- Lloyd Waner
You never had the opportunity to play with some of the great ballplayers, but being that close around them, and being in the same category, was a great feeling, to feel that vibe of all the best players who played the game. -- Rickey Henderson
If I was the Jackie Robinson of golf, I sure didn't do a very good job of it. Jackie was followed by hundreds of great black ballplayers who have transformed their sport... But there are hardly any black kids coming up through the ranks of golf today. -- Charlie Sifford
The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that it's different somehow. It's not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money. -- Tony Oliva
When there were just eight teams in each of the big leagues, I was always told, 'It's hard to come up, but it's just hard to stay in the big leagues.' That's because there's always somebody. The Cardinals had so many minor league clubs and had so many good ballplayers. -- Red Schoendienst
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 and more ballplayers can play, but I think the game is still the game. The ballplayers, they come into the game with one thing in mind - it's their job. -- Tony Oliva
What I say about actors is you always want to find an actor you can play ball with. You throw the ball at them and you want them to throw it back. Your ball playing is a lot better when you play with good ballplayers, like any sport. Every actor I know feels the same way. -- Robert Knepper
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 broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league. -- Walter Dean Myers
Sammy Sosa? Everybody knew who Sammy was, paid attention to Sammy. I had already signed in pro ball when he had the great homer year with Mark McGwire in '98. But I followed it, and I was proud of him because he was my countryman. There are a lot of great ballplayers from the Dominican, and he's one of the best. -- Alfonso Soriano
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
I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss. -- Al McGuire
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 get tired of hearing my ballplayers bellyache all the time. They should sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves play. -- Buzzie Bavasi
I've seen plenty of ballplayers way better than me, but they didn't have the work ethic. It comes down to how bad you want it. -- Marcus Giles
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 leotards. -- Mike Royko
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 a really good basketball team. -- Oscar Robertson
Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them to say: God bless mommy, God bless daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth! He's upped daddy's paycheck by 15 to 40 percent! -- Waite Hoyt

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