29 Ballplayer Quotes for You to Enjoy

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud. Bob Uecker

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

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I'm a ballplayer, not an actor. Joe DiMaggio

Ballplayer Actor

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

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You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that's why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn't even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer. Barry Sanders

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As a ballplayer, there is no Christian way to swing a bat. There is no Christian way to swing or throw. Ben Zobrist

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

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

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I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder. Chad Harbach

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. Charlie Sheen

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But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer. Curt Flood

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You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn't mean you're grown up. Earl Weaver

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

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I always could hit, but fielding I had to work at. I took as much pride in fielding as hitting. I became a complete ballplayer. I knew when to take the extra base. I knew about the outfielder hitting the cutoff man. I knew when and how to bunt. I knew when to hit-and-run. George Kell

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

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Kevin Durant would be welcome back in Oklahoma any time he's willing to come, and I want to be the first one he calls. He took care of the victims of our tornadoes. He took care of families. Took care of little kids. So, he has a heart, and he's not a bad ballplayer. Jim Inhofe

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When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named Louis Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century. Joe Posnanski

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

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

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Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that. Nomar Garciaparra

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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. Red Schoendienst

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A ballplayer doesn't make excuses. Roberto Alomar

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I'm proud of everything that I've accomplished since I was a little boy. That was my dream - to be a ballplayer. I didn't dream to win so many Gold Gloves, or Silver Bats or play in All-Star Games or World Series. I was just dreaming to play the game. Roberto Alomar

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

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