(70 quotes found)
“All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.”
Babe Ruth
“There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.”
Honus Wagner
“A pitcher is not a ballplayer.”
Christy Mathewson
“To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.”
Mickey Mantle
“Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.”
Leo Durocher
“The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.”
Lou Gehrig
“The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.”
Reggie Jackson
“A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.”
“Any ballplayers that played for me on either the Cardinals or the Yankees could come to me if he were in need and I would give him a helping hand. I made only two exceptions, Carl Mays and Joe Bush. If they were in a gutter, I'd kick them.”
Miller Huggins
“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
