Best Baseball Player Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.”

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“I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.”

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Author:Daniel Sunjata

“I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.”

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Author:Ichiro Suzuki

“I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.”

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Author:Muddy Waters

“Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.”

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Author:Roberto Clemente

“When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a baseball player. This is something I think about. The more I think about it, I'm convinced that God wanted me to play baseball.”

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Author:Roberto Clemente

“I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.”

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Author:Gerald R. Ford

“Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be a baseball player than a musician. Now, like most kids, I regret it.”

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Author:Charlie Day

“commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the steroid test, you failed the IQ test.”

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Author:Bob Costas

“I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.”

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Author:Bryce Harper

“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.”

“We're baseball players. We don't need guys telling us, 'Hey, you need to hurry. Hey, you need to do this. Hey, you need to step up.' We are professionals, we can do that without anybody telling us. I'm OK with it, but we need to do it on our own.”

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Author:Bengie Molina

“When I was a kid I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls, but I couldn't play ball. I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me. Not that I wouldn't rather make love, but the work has become a habit.”

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Author:Shel Silverstein

“It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine.... Now, though, the symbol is everywhere: artists beat gold into the shape of the Roman execution device, baseball players cross themselves before batting, and cancy confectioners even make chocolate crosses for the faithful to eat during Holy Week. Strange as it may seem, Christianity has become a religion of the cross--the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, in modern terms.”

“It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.”

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Author:Joe Garagiola

“I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.”

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Book:Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute

Source: Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute

“Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it.”

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Author:Paul Ormerod

“It's the spirit of Dominicans coming out and the pride that we have in our music and our baseball players. Dominicans love two things: politics and baseball. When we're not talking politics, we're talking baseball.”

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Author:Jose Peralta

“I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.”

“Some representatives of monopolistic capitalism, sensing this evil in their system, have tried to silence criticism by pointing to the diffused ownership in the great corporations. They advertise, "No one owns more than 4 percent of the stock of this great company." Or they print lists of stockholders, showing that these include farmers, schoolteachers, baseball players, taxi drivers, and even babies.”

“I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.”

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Author:Alan Ritchson

“If you're a baseball player and you're on the mound, you don't ever want to look up in the stands if somebody is yelling at you, because they know they've got you. You just keep your head down, keep moving along. Of course it annoys you, but you don't ever show that it annoys you. Just go ahead, move on, and keep on playing.”

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Author:Tiger Woods

“People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.”

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Author:Jackson Browne

“That's what I love about acting. There's never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can be a baseball player, you can be whatever you want in the acting world. I think I've found my calling.”

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Author:Ryan Guzman

“I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.”

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Author:Ryan Guzman

“I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.”

“I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.”

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Author:Ryne Sandberg

“I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.”

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Author:Joe Namath

“People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.”

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Author:Dennis Eckersley

“I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to.”

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Author:Bob Dylan

“The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.”

“I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.”

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Author:Yogi Berra

“Today's baseball players are walking conglomerates. They have fantastic salaries, multiple investments, but we had one thing they don't have today, the train ride. We didn't always like it, but those rides kept us close as a team and as friends. Something you can't get on a two hour plane ride that used to take you fifteen hours on a train.”

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Author:Duke Snider

“He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact.”

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Author:Dan Quisenberry

“Why do people sing Take Me Out to The Ballgame when they're already there?”

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Author:Alex Rodriguez

“I'm merely a baseball player, guys. In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance.”

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Author:John Rocker

“I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid.”

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Author:Bryan Cranston

“I'm a character actor. I have to find work in good movies where I can make something of my role. I'm a very lucky guy to be in that kind of position. It's like a kid who dreams of becoming a baseball player and then he gets to play for the Yankees.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.”

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Book:Al Pacino

Source: Al Pacino

“I love sports. If I could be a baseball player I would. I just am not good at it at all.”

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Author:Eric Hutchinson

“If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.”

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Author:Rickey Henderson

“Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.”

“There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.”

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Author:Lou Gehrig

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

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Author:Lou Gehrig

“If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.”

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Author:Mickey Spillane

“Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks.”

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Author:Bill Lee

“A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime.”

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Book:My turn at Bat: the story of my life

Source: My turn at Bat: the story of my life

“There is a double-standard between men and women. My father was a major league baseball player, and I grew up thinking I could have the same attitude on the field that he did. When I did that in real life, people thought I was a total bi-atch.”

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