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.
The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
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.
There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.
The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
I just want to find a way to stay consistent as a ballplayer, and I know my team wants me to do that.
If you look at poker as a sport like baseball, then I'd be maybe a minor league or high school ballplayer. But I play with T-ballers.
I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.
I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give.
The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league.
(on Major League Soccer)
This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.
I have an ego like everyone else. I want to be recognized as a good ballplayer.
Carl Furillo was pure ballplayer. In his prime he stood six feet tall and weighed 190 pounds and there was a fluidity to his frame you seldom see, among such sinews. His black hair was thick, and tightly curled. His face was strong and smooth. He had the look of a young indomitable centurion ... I cannot imagine Carl Furillo in his prime as anything other than a ballplayer. Right field in Brooklyn was his destiny.
I do know when you look at some ballplayer and all of a sudden he is the size of a truck something is wrong.
(Bill) Terry, you can ask for more money in the winter and do less in the summer than any ballplayer I know.
I want everybody to feel he has a chance to get into a game when he comes to the ballpark. I play guys when I want to so they'll be ready when I have to. I don't consider myself a motivator of players. I think it's an insult to a ballplayer to have to be motivated.