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I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw. -- Willie Mays
I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am. -- Ryne Sandberg
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in. -- Casey Stengel
My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper. -- James Caan
I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset. -- Curt Schilling
I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player. -- Pete Rose
I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing. -- Eric Idle
God wanted me to be a baseball player. -- Roberto Clemente
I wanted to be a professional baseball player. -- Balthazar Getty
Baseball player: "What time is it?" "You mean now?" -- Yogi Berra
I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player. -- John Kruk
People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia
Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home. -- Dan Quisenberry
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain. -- Pierre Trudeau
I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003. -- David Cone
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens. -- Tommy Lasorda
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? -- Jim Bouton
When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both. -- Graig Nettles
I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player. -- Nolan Ryan
Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else. -- Brooks Robinson
Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year. -- Dave Winfield
I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player. -- Ichiro Suzuki
If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that the can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting...It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work. -- Christy Mathewson
All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player. -- John Kruk
I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player. -- Bryce Harper
I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. -- Roberto Clemente
Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted. -- Bradley Whitford
I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field. -- Bryce Harper
Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional baseball player instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not. -- Casey Kasem
I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back. -- Ben Chandler
I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player. -- Reggie Jackson
When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But something within me told me that was not going to happen. -- Tom Wolfe
Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays. -- Cal Ripken, Jr.
If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes. -- Mickey Spillane
I was a baseball player and a football player at Stanford, so I didn't play a lot of golf in college. I really started playing a lot after I turned pro and I had some time in the off-season. -- John Elway
Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team. -- Phil Knight
I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion. -- Joe Namath
When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant. -- Masaharu Morimoto
I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did. -- Willie Mays
I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family. But it's always been that way for me; nothing has come easy. -- Shemar Moore
You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy. -- Bill Bryson
I don't know of any other organization that's raised more money than golf has, because if you are a baseball player, you're a football player, you're a hockey player, if you're just a businessman, and you want to raise some money for a charity, what do they do? They have a golf tournament. They have a golf outing, and they go out and they do it. -- Lee Trevino
The most overrated underrated player in baseball. -- Lawrence Ritter
No former player has owned a team in baseball. -- Derek Jeter
I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist. -- Carlos Delgado
I went through baseball as a player to be named later. -- Joe Garagiola
I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio. -- Mickey Mantle
Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting. -- Shemar Moore
I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid. -- John Malkovich
The only dream I've ever had is to become a major league baseball player. -- Mark Teixeira
Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything. -- Doug Harvey
I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point. -- Jose Canseco
I'm a baseball player. Not being able to play baseball certainly was a lonely thing. -- Hideki Matsui
I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me. -- Gerald R. Ford
Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions. -- Sherman Alexie
I'm a baseball player. I'm also a guy who mows his lawn and plays with his dog. -- Scott Rolen
My name is not 'The Best Player in Baseball.' My name is George Kenneth Griffey, Jr. -- Ken Griffey, Jr.
I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball. -- Roberto Clemente
Anytime you put a baseball player in a suit and take him out of his element its uncomfortable. -- Paul Konerko
[In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player. -- Eric Gagne
He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact. -- Dan Quisenberry
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player. -- William Alexander
I am and will always be just simply a basball [sic] player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball. -- Jose Canseco
At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am. -- Adam Dunn
The Big Hurt describes me perfectly-not as a person, but as a player. It's what I do to a baseball. -- Frank Thomas
Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not. -- Casey Kasem
Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit. -- Stan Musial
I love sports. If I could be a baseball player I would. I just am not good at it at all. -- Eric Hutchinson
If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel? -- Jack Welch
Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player. -- Marsha Warfield
I'm merely a baseball player, guys, ... In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance. -- John Rocker
We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player. -- Branch Rickey
I'm trying to be the best baseball player I can, to learn from what I see and get better every day. -- Giancarlo Stanton
No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. Hes the best Ive ever seen. -- Ryne Sandberg
No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. He's the best I've ever seen. -- Ryne Sandberg
I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45 when he played baseball. -- Jerry Reinsdorf
I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters. -- Daniel Sunjata
I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing. -- Alan Ritchson
I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.. -- Willem de Kooning
Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero. -- Edward Abbey
There's not a pill or an injection that's going to give me, going to give any player the hand-eye coordination to hit a baseball. -- Mark McGwire
You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next? -- John McGraw
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game. -- Branch Rickey
Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player's uniform. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks. -- Jacqueline Leo
When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny? -- Sydney J. Harris
I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken. -- Martha Stewart
It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two. -- Joe Garagiola
If you gave me a choice between being married and being a baseball player, that's a no-brainer. I would be married any day. I just love it. -- Lance Berkman
The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro is stalking somebody again but that anyone cares that much about a baseball player. -- Bernie Lincicome
If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor. -- John McGraw
I won't walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck. I am superstitious about everything. -- Lauren Groff
I had a lot of fear that would motivate me to try to work hard, because I didn't know what I would do if I wasn't a baseball player. -- R.A. Dickey
You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement. -- Mike Piazza
How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star. -- Jason Giambi
I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid. -- Bryan Cranston
All the time, I think positive things about baseball. That's always how you do it. I'm a baseball player-that's all I want to do, all the time, be better and better. -- Rafael Soriano
I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing. -- Alan Ritchson
I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing. -- Alan Ritchson
Rolen's the perfect baseball player. It's his tenacity, his preparation, the way he plays. He tries to do everything fundamentally sound. And he puts the team team first-there's no fanfare with him. -- Ned Yost
[ Chadwick Boseman] was not a baseball player. He spent, I don't know, countless hours, many months, working two sessions a day with professional pro coaches to develop the baseball skills that he needed. -- Harrison Ford
I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was. -- Cal Ripken, Jr.
Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both. -- Graig Nettles
I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State. -- Ryne Sandberg
Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be a baseball player than a musician. Now, like most kids, I regret it. -- Charlie Day
I don't think special attention should be given to an actor or a singer or a baseball player or a soccer player more than anyone else, but they do have an opinion like anyone else. -- Viggo Mortensen

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