Top 1012 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Baseball Players - Page 7

You get what you earn.

When you have an inconsistent season, you learn a lot about yourself and your pitching.

Before I was drafted by the Red Sox, I really didn't know that much about them, but in talking to people, they said they weren't known for stealing a lot of bases. It's nice coming to an organization that doesn't necessarily use the run game and still have them give me the green light to steal and use my speed.

In order to be better, you should expect to be better.

I'm very bad at packing. It ends up being a circus, throwing everything in there. You never want to come up short.

I think managing shortened my playing career, but I was a better manager when I was playing, when I could lead like a platoon sergeant in the field rather than as a general sitting back on his duff in a command post.

One of my chores was to milk the cows, which meant getting up before dawn and going out to that cold dark barn. I didn't expect to make it all the way to the big leagues; I just had to get way from them damn cows.

I learned that I have to work hard every day, that I can't get down if I get in a slump.

I learned early on to never walk while I was on the ball field. I ran everywhere I went.

My idea of religion is we are supposed to bring people together. We are not supposed to judge other people.

All skills are perfected through the process of failure. Embrace loss as a necessary part of improvement.

Coaching third with a pitcher on base is like being a member of a bomb disposal squad. The thing could blow up in your face at any moment.

I sure don't think of myself as a fat person, just someone who carries extra weight. I've never seen anyone on the DL with pulled fat.

It's a time in my life that I'm glad it's behind me. I've had time to reflect on the whole thing. I want to talk about it one time and kind of lay it to rest. I'm ready to put it behind me. I've learned my lesson. I don't recommend the experience I had to anyone, really. It's not something that was fun. It's not a destination you would choose.

I believe you've got to utilize what god gave you, so if you have facial hair, there are ways to look good while sporting it.

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

Physical ability only goes so far. You have to work hard the rest of the way.

I really have never been nervous in the big leagues.

I tried hockey, but it never stuck.

My focus is to stay up the middle. If I'm a little early I'll hit it to left, if I'm a little late, I'll hit it to right.

Some ghosts haunt you for life. The best you can do is make room on the couch and get used to living with them.

That's a headache waiting to happen.

My children are everything to me. And the three of them are driving me crazy.

When you are 20 years old, you are immature.

When you're a young player, you try to prove yourself with your numbers and you try to prove your worth to the team. That can be an adverse situation because you can try to do too much.

I can't stand by and allow tens of thousands of innocent people to be slaughtered for lies.

The boss isn't always right, but he is the boss.

I love Denver. There's not a better place to hit, better place to play. I'm a West Coast guy, so I like playing in the NL West.

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.

I'm always doing my best. Maybe people expect more of me, but I'm always doing my best.

I'm working to be a better person.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

I want to focus more on my pitches, not on the tempo. After that, I felt more comfortable.

I'm not a big technology guy. I like my privacy and being as normal as I can. I'm not an internet guy. I just don't care for it. I made a Facebook in high school and I couldn't even tell you the password to it. I couldn't even guess the password or email. I haven't been on it in four or five years. I don't like being attached to my phone. That's how I am. I'm an old-school guy.

I don't want to be at a point where I'm trying to steal the spotlight from the team or anyone else or make it seem like it's just about me.

I'm a slow guy.

There's no half-assing anything you do if you want to do it well.

It's a beautiful day for a night game.

I don't think that the reality of Cuba is perfect, but it doesn't cleave to the negativity, either, with which some people see it.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

I've definitely always wanted to be the guy they tell, 'Here's the ball. Go do it.'

It's not the method, it's the mindset.

But I feel like I can go out there and do what I need to do.

If you want to get to know me, you have to get off the baseball field. Because when I'm on the field, and in the clubhouse, I'm doing what I'm paid to do, what I love to do, and man, I hate it when I fail.

Some people are so busy in learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

I think any athlete will tell you that season-ending losses stay with you for a long time. If you are one of the main reasons for a season-ending loss, it sticks with you longer.

Tapping melons with your knuckles is a good way of making your selection in the store, but apparently it's frowned upon at the strip club.

There is nothing wrong with [pitching by committee] in mid-week [games]. It creates unique problems for hitters. I think it creates more problems for good-hitting teams than it does for the other teams.

I don' really care what people think. I don't really have to prove anything to anybody. I just have to prove stuff to my teammates.

Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.

Boston fans - and New York fans are the same - it doesn't matter what you do outside of baseball, they don't forgive or forget that you play in pinstripes and they don't care about your interests off the field.

You've got to play for whoever you play for.

Sparky Lyle went from Cy Young to Sayonara.

When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.

Playing third base, you rarely have time to get into a great fielding position. It's all about reaction.

You never know how your skills are going to play out at the next level. But I knew I had a lot of doubles and I was capable of driving the ball into gaps.

My goal was like to play in the NBA. I didn't want to leave my country, my people, my friends - even my school.

I'm just at the beginning of my career and because of that I don't consider myself a star.

One of the first things I learned from veteran teammates - as a minor league player in the Detroit Tigers organization - was that you do everything in your power to stay out of the training room. It's a survival of the fittest thing.