A pitcher is not a ballplayer.
A pitcher is not a ballplayer.
I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.
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.
A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
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 I had to give.
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.
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.
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.
Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.
The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.
Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.
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.
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