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We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed. -- Willie Stargell
When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons. -- Red Barber
Good ball players make good citizens. -- Grover Cleveland
Football players have some bodies! Oh my goodness! -- Vivica A. Fox
Wrestlers are a bunch of wanna-be football players. -- Brian Bosworth
Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental. -- Doug Plank
Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull. -- Steve Sabol
Football players should always remember there's a whole lot more to life. -- Steve Largent
Football players are misunderstood. They aren't the dumb jocks people think they are. -- Simone Elkeles
I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful. -- Warren Moon
I appreciate this moment in time...ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes -- Common
I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports. -- Terrell Owens
Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers. -- Ian Shoales
If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds. -- Irwin Shaw
The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players. -- Jim Courier
When I think about athletes, probably my favorite guest of all time among baseball players was Ted Williams. -- Charlie Rose
Most volleyball players are made in the winter, spring and summer, for come fall, everyone practices equal time. -- John Kessel
That makes me think of spandex-covered football players. It's not me. I'm in rhinestones and velvet, not spandex. -- Johnny Weir
I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen. -- Oscar Robertson
As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field. -- John Elway
The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money. -- Arsene Wenger
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
I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me. -- Jackie Mason
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain. -- Pierre Trudeau
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
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
Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall. -- Warren Moon
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
I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do. -- Reggie Bush
I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used. -- Ato Boldon
If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse. -- Bill Veeck
When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players. -- Abby Wambach
I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players. -- Gabrielle Union
In high school I used to sing in the shower. None of the football players liked it, because they were all naked and I was in a tuxedo. -- Jarod Kintz
Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks. -- Bill Lee
Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it. -- Paul Ormerod
I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears. -- Rachel Nichols
I do something that I don't think anyone else does. I warm up before a game. Baseball and basketball players warm up, so why shouldn't the announcer warm up? -- Chick Hearn
Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified. -- George Vecsey
By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply. -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
"By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply." -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has changed. You don't know who's trying to take advantage of you, what people really want. -- Billy Williams
Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball. -- Jennie Finch
For some reason in today's society, people look up to football players and you have a voice. And it's because of that voice you have the opportunity to impact people's lives. -- Tim Tebow
Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit? -- George Archer
I had a sketch called 'Fedora Basketball,' which was about basketball players having to wear hats; in addition to scoring points, they have to make sure their fedoras don't fall off. -- Hannibal Buress
By high school, I was already tall - 5-foot-8 - and one day I made the mistake of wearing green tights. The football players all started calling me the Jolly Green Giant. -- Rene Russo
Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom killing business. -- Paddy Chayefsky
Karch inspired his partners, his opponents and the world of volleyball players to be better than they were, to be great... In the end, who could do more for a sport than that? -- Mike Dodd
When asked about which team is the toughest team in the league, responded with an answer that all volleyball players must comprehend. He said simply that it was, 'The team you are playing.' -- Roy Campanella
Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or this or that.' Guys work so hard in baseball, it's incredible. But people don't know that. -- Bryce Harper
The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up. -- Ichiro Suzuki
It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time. -- Khloe Kardashian
When I came to Barcelona, I really liked in the dressing room that I found balanced, normal people: Valdes, Puyol, Iniesta. They don't think they are the center of the world for being football players. -- Lilian Thuram
The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing. -- Red Grange
I know that baseball players have certain rituals or habits that they develop, because sometimes it becomes somewhat superstitious if they get on a streak and want to do the same thing over and over again. -- Chadwick Boseman
It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task. -- Elliot Richardson
Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl. -- Eric Williams
Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying 'yes and' to other people's ideas, making statements. -- Ali Farahnakian
It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys focused and committed to a task. That group dynamic, and then helping them to grow as people and basketball players. -- Isaiah Thomas
It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it. -- David Cone
One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others. -- Bill Dedman
B.C. sat back in his chairWhatever America needs, the world will supply. Cocaine? Colombia steps to the plate. Shortage of farmworkers, corn detasselers? Thank God for Mexico. Baseball players? Viva Dominicana. Need more interns? India, Philippines zindabad" -- Abraham Verghese
There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else. -- Pete Hamill
Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players. -- James Surowiecki
If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they 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
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
As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It's cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I'm not one of those people. -- Ben Silbermann
The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them. -- Ato Boldon
Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different. -- Warren Moon
Statistically, I'd say there are about as many gay figure skaters as there are gay football players. The majority are straight. There are just those few exceptions, and those are the ones who have gotten picked on and followed over the years. -- Johnny Weir
You're convincing these big, tough football players to wear what was essentially women's lingerie. There was a little bit of a Jedi mind trick that needed to take place. The product really spoke for itself once guys felt it and touched it. -- Kevin Plank
I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community. -- Magic Johnson
Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball. It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come. -- Jennie Finch
Despite the situation in Cuba, I had a chance to play on the national team; and compared to other baseball players and other people in Cuba, I had the opportunity to live at a level that was not very high class but in the middle. -- Yoenis Cespedes
Why don't they allow professional wrestling at the Olympics? They allow pro basketball players and hockey players. Olympic pro wrestling would be awesome. The team from Mexico could wear those Mr. X masks. The French wrestler could hit his opponent with a baguette. Or perhaps just surrender. -- Craig Ferguson
There's so much built-up camaraderie and sacrifice, and football is such a tough man's game. I think that's why it's so popular. That's why so many blue-collar communities and people can really feel attracted to this because it is a blue-collar struggle that football players go through. -- Troy Polamalu
This is a dirty business, that is why I go out and play with my heart. I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports. This is like a nine to five. No guaranteed contracts, and that is the worst thing about it. -- Terrell Owens
In Hollywood, for me, it's all about the movie stars and the singers. Baseball players don't draw too much attention; we're low key. I'm good with faces and sometimes bad with names, but I'll walk up to somebody if I know who they are... show them some love. -- Matt Kemp
I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of big stars - Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble - and I don't ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck. -- Olly Murs
Major league baseball players and owners should meet immediately to enact the standards that apply to the minor leagues, and if they don't, I will have to introduce legislation that says professional sports will have minimum standards for testing. I'll give them until January, and then I'll introduce legislation. -- John McCain
Making the effort to improve as a human being is what Coach Lombardi was all about. He was able to see the gap between where we were and what we could become-both as football players and as people. And he felt it was his God-given responsibility to close that gap. -- Jerry Kramer
In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play once a week, so they must really need to rest. That does kind of tell you how physical the sport is. But in hockey, you have the boards. I just couldn't say which is more physical. -- Sidney Crosby
I think there's an awful lot of ball players with great skills, but whether or not they're going to be on winning teams is not going to be answered until you see how they fit in to a team or a program. If they don't, it may be their fault or it may be their coaches. -- Tex Winter
There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone. -- Peter Guber
I think there are some players born to play ball. -- Joe DiMaggio
Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player. -- Bill Klem
To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game. -- Enos Slaughter
I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill. -- Casey Stengel
The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes. -- Edward Fitzgerald
I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium. -- Willie Stargell
Four times out of five the linesman gets a better view of the ball near him than the player himself. -- Helen Wills Moody
Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that. -- Tiger Woods
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me. -- Kurt Russell
Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young. -- John Thorn
My first ball I ever got from a Big League player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson. -- Pedro Martinez
A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues. -- Joe DiMaggio
Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves. -- Frank Lampard
I'm not a person or a selfish player, but we have to move the ball more, and we have to look further the team game, because we have enough talent to use different players. -- Pau Gasol
Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players. -- Larry Bird
A lot of the moves I make originate from futsal. It's played in a very small space, and the ball control is different in futsal. And to this day my ball control is pretty similar to a futsal player's control. -- Ronaldinho
I'm busy working on every aspect of my game - defense, shooting, rebounding - but I really want to become a better overall team player. Help my teammates become better players out on the court in order to win more ball games. -- Kevin Durant
I often felt as a player in a 4-4-2, you end up being outnumbered in midfield and chasing the ball, so as a manager I liked wingbacks to push forward; it gives the midfield player on the ball three or four options. -- Glenn Hoddle
Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them. -- Don Meyer
My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor. -- Bowden Wyatt
I have a tendency, especially when I'm playing with great players, to try and get them the ball. -- Steve Nash
We must make sure their worst players get the ball the most. You'll get it back in no time. -- Johan Cruijff
Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally. -- Alfred Hitchcock
One of the biggest reasons I like coaching college ball is the kids. I feel I can impact players lives -- Rick Majerus
You get into pro ball and you realize all the guys were the best players on their teams. You have to keep moving forward. -- Matt Holliday
Players from the Dominican Republic have a history of not playing well in cold weather.... The ball hurts their hands when they make contact. -- Grady Little
Barcelona players are passing the ball at least 25 times to reach the goal, while Real Madrid's Xabi Alonso is doing this all in a single pass. -- Roberto Mancini
I'm not one to blow smoke at my players. They kicked our butts on the offensive boards. And it's not just because the ball came their way. -- Gregg Popovich
Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without the ball. -- Tommy Docherty
College coaches want to power the ball inside, they want (their post players) to power the ball up, but no one can shoot from that 15-foot area anymore. -- Oscar Robertson
Yelling doesn't win ball games. It doesn't put any points on the scoreboard. And I don't think words win ball games all the time. Players do. Preparation does. -- Jerry Tarkanian
Owners want to make their team a winner so they can get more fans in the stands, and that's why they go after the best ball-players and pay 'em what they're worth. -- Moses Malone

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