Top 94 Ballplayer Quotes & Sayings

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give.

On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived.

I have an ego like everyone else. I want to be recognized as a good ballplayer.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing.

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.

I guess anytime you are mentioned with Hank Aaron, it is the ultimate compliment, not only as a hitter, but obviously, the great ballplayer that he was.

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

A ballplayer has two reputations, one with the other players and one with the fans. The first is based on ability. The second the newspapers give him.

I'm just the same as anybody else now. To get TB again, I'd have to go out and catch a whole new case of it. Let's forget about it. I'm a ballplayer.

I'm a ballplayer. I know how hard the game is... and anybody that makes it in the Hall of Fame, I support. They become a member of our special fraternity.

The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.

I haven't put on a baseball uniform since about age 12. It's like I'm wearing a Halloween costume. I'm pretending to be a ballplayer.

I don't really classify myself as a scorer. I'm a ballplayer; I'm a playmaker. I like to set people up and make the game easy for everybody.

Has he (Rickey Henderson) ever been here (Spring Training) the first day? You have to say Rickey's consistent. That's what you want in a ballplayer - consistency.

If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we're not going to talk about that.

I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear.

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

A ballplayer doesn't make excuses.

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

I just want to find a way to stay consistent as a ballplayer, and I know my team wants me to do that.

I wanted to show Baltimore that they were getting a good ballplayer.

I'm a ballplayer. Whoever picks me, I'm going to show up.

I know Odell Beckham is the best ballplayer I've ever seen in my life, and Brandon Marshall is a Hall of Fame receiver and Sterling Shepard is very quick, no one can guard him.

It's very tough for a ballplayer to get proud and keep his dignity.

The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.

I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.

I do know when you look at some ballplayer and all of a sudden he is the size of a truck something is wrong.

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.

I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. Anybody who has a good shot has got to take it and keep taking it. So he misses...so what?

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.

(Bill) Terry, you can ask for more money in the winter and do less in the summer than any ballplayer I know.

I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.

As a ballplayer, you just want to feel respected. I like the way Washington presented the team to me and I feel good about what was being said.

No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.

But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league 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'm a ballplayer, not an actor.

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

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.

In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.

Gehrig had one advantage over me. He was a better ballplayer.

If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.

There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life.

I think what separates a superstar from the average ballplayer is that he concentrates just a little bit longer.

I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.

As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.

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.

I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.

I can't do much about my height, but I can do a lot of things in strength and speed and work on that. I'm going to try to do that the best I can to make me a better ballplayer.