I think that the game is the game. I think that expansion is good for the game because it gives more jobs to the people and more ballplayers can play, but I think the game is still the game. The ballplayers, they come into the game with one thing in mind - it's their job.
Quotes about ballplayers (16 Quotes)
The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that it's different somehow. It's not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money.
They said they were building the lineup around me, so they wanted to keep me in the mix. We have some genuine, authentic, actual ballplayers.
All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now.
All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.
No two umpires, or no two referees, have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game, ... And ballplayers and basketball players understand that, depending upon who the umpire is and who the referee is, the game can be called entirely differently.
Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.
You don't hear enough about basketball in Whistler however there are hundreds of people in Whistler who are quality ballplayers. I am just trying to raise awareness and connect people who play the game.
Everybody is supposed to make a contribution. That's something we try to advocate and preach. We don't want anybody to be able to focus in on one or two or three ballplayers. I want everybody to be worried about everybody we have on the floor.
He had a special relationship with ballplayers, as he had with fans, as he had with the front office people. He was an open, available, uncle-like personality, and I think that is special. Baseball fans appreciate that.
I feel God has blessed us ballplayers with the ability to throw a ball, hit a ball, catch a ball and to play the game of baseball at a level that only a few can play in the world,
The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.
The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.