Baseball Player Quotes - Page 5

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

  Bob Lemon

  Friendship, Sports, Baseball

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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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• Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?

  George Archer

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

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• Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Baseball, Country, Humorous

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• You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.

  Bill Bryson

  Baseball, Kids, Successful

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• You know how in sports baseball players, they hit home runs. Football players, they throw and they score touchdowns. I get to do something that very few people get to do - I get to touch the human brain, and every day I get to hit home runs, I get to score touchdowns.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Sports, Baseball, Football

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is a double-standard between men and women. My father was a major league baseball player, and I grew up thinking I could have the same attitude on the field that he did. When I did that in real life, people thought I was a total bi-atch.

  Katie Uhlaender

  Baseball, Attitude, Father

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Everybody used to say that baseball players can't dress and athletes can't dress. You know, a lot of athletes now are trying to prove everybody wrong, though there are some athletes that try too hard and try to do over-the-top things. But me, I try to be simple and just make whatever I'm wearing look good.

  Matt Kemp

  Baseball, Athlete, Simple

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• I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.

  Carlos Delgado

  Baseball, Player, Political

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• Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks.

  Bill Lee

  Baseball, Nice, Army

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• In an unhealthy way, I found a lot of validity in having always been a very good athlete, a very good baseball player, and I've since grown out of that place into a different perspective and learned how to live differently, thankfully, where baseball is certainly something that's very important to me. It's not who I am, though. It's just what I do.

  R.A. Dickey

  Baseball, Athlete, Player

  "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.

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• I'm a baseball player. I'm also a guy who mows his lawn and plays with his dog.

  Scott Rolen

  Baseball, Dog, Player

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• We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Winning, Player

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• I had a lot of fear that would motivate me to try to work hard, because I didn't know what I would do if I wasn't a baseball player.

  R.A. Dickey

  Baseball, Hard Work, Player

  "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.

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• My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.

  Andrew Young

  Baseball, Player, College

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• I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.

  Joe Namath

  Baseball, Football, Player

  "Playboy's Candid Conversation With The Superswinger QB, Joe Namath". thestacks.deadspin.com. September 5, 2013.

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• I'm trying to be the best baseball player I can, to learn from what I see and get better every day.

  Giancarlo Stanton

  Baseball, Player, Get Better

  "Marlins' Stanton a 'one in a million' talent". www.espn.com. June 11, 2010.

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• Major league baseball players and owners should meet immediately to enact the standards that apply to the minor leagues, and if they don't, I will have to introduce legislation that says professional sports will have minimum standards for testing. I'll give them until January, and then I'll introduce legislation.

  John McCain

  Sports, Baseball, Player

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• If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence.

  George Carlin

  Baseball, Team, Father

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• I remember I thought I should become a doctor, even though I had no talent for science whatsoever. Then of course, until I was about sixteen, I thought I might have a shot as a major league baseball player. But once I hit my full adolescence I lost all interest in that. I discovered, in rapid succession, books, girls, alcohol and tobacco, and I've never turned back. Those are the four things I'm most interested in.

  Paul Auster

  Girl, Baseball, Book

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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