Baseball Player Quotes

• A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Family, Sports, Baseball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Baseball, Singles

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• I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Mlb, Practice

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• 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.

  Steve Garvey

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

  "There's No I in Team, But Me Plays a Big Role" by Tom Gerdy, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 19, 2012.

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• The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

  Bob Lemon

  Friendship, Sports, Baseball

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

  Rickey Henderson

  Baseball, Dirty, Games

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• I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Golf, Mlb

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• More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Illusion

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• Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.

  Ken Harrelson

  Sports, Baseball, Team

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• The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

  Joe Paterno

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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  Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

  Bo Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

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• If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Happiness, Baseball

  Yogi: It Ain't Over (1989)

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• People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Sports, Baseball, Spring

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Men, Goal

  Ted Williams, John Underwood (1988). “My Turn at Bat: The Story of My Life”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.

  Shemar Moore

  Dream, Baseball, Player

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Dan Quisenberry

  Baseball, Home, Player

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• 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.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Sports, Baseball, Player

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• I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

  Curt Schilling

  Baseball, Player, Thinking

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• All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Baseball, Courage

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• 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.

  Pete Rose

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

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• I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Baseball, Player, Who I Am

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• What Time Is It? You Mean Now?

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Time, Mean

  "What Time Is It? You Mean Now?". Book by Yogi Berra, 2001.

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• People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.

  Pete Incaviglia

  Funny, Baseball, Player

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• Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

  Dave Winfield

  Baseball, Hero, Player

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