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A pitcher is not a ballplayer.
I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.
A ballplayer doesn't make excuses.
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
I'm a ballplayer. Whoever picks me, I'm going to show up.
There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.
It's very tough for a ballplayer to get proud and keep his dignity.
I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give.
I wanted to show Baltimore that they were getting a good ballplayer.
How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.
My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.
Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
I have an ego like everyone else. I want to be recognized as a good ballplayer.
The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.
To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.
Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.
The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.
But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.
I just want to find a way to stay consistent as a ballplayer, and I know my team wants me to do that.
As a ballplayer, there is no Christian way to swing a bat. There is no Christian way to swing or throw.
A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.
There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life.
I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.
The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy.
If you look at poker as a sport like baseball, then I'd be maybe a minor league or high school ballplayer. But I play with T-ballers.
I don't really classify myself as a scorer. I'm a ballplayer; I'm a playmaker. I like to set people up and make the game easy for everybody.
Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
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.
The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
I'm a ballplayer. I know how hard the game is... and anybody that makes it in the Hall of Fame, I support. They become a member of our special fraternity.
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.
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.
I know Odell Beckham is the best ballplayer I've ever seen in my life, and Brandon Marshall is a Hall of Fame receiver and Sterling Shepard is very quick, no one can guard him.
I can't do much about my height, but I can do a lot of things in strength and speed and work on that. I'm going to try to do that the best I can to make me a better ballplayer.
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.
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.
Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
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.
I have the utmost respect for Charles Barkley. He was a heck of a ballplayer... When it comes to basketball, please quote Charles Barkley. But when it comes to race in America? Please don't quote Charles Barkley.
I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.