Quotes of: Ballplayer Keyword

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

Reggie Jackson

People in real life don't get ballplayers' humor, the way we talk in the clubhouse.

Justin Verlander

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Babe Ruth

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

Danny Aiello

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

Rex Stout

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

Andy Warhol

Ballplayers, like everyone else, like to get told they did something right.

Willie McCovey

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

Leo Durocher

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

Warren Spahn

If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers?

Doug Harvey

Real ballplayers pass the stuffing by rolling it up in a ball and batting it across the table with a turkey leg.

Tom Swyers

The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy.

Tris Speaker

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

Christy Mathewson

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

Dizzy Dean

You never had the opportunity to play with some of the great ballplayers, but being that close around them, and being in the same category, was a great feeling, to feel that vibe of all the best players who played the game.

Rickey Henderson

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.

Ring Lardner

I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.

Roger Maris

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Babe Ruth

If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.

Willie Mays

I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.

Lloyd Waner

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.

George Brett