Ballplayer Quotes

I`m a ballplayer, not an actor.

I`m just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I`ve got to help my ball club win. I`ve never played any other way.

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 want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.

I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give.

Any ballplayer that don`t sign autographs for little kids ain`t an American. He`s a communist.

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.

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.

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.

Rookie or not, he is a good player. First-round pick, sixth player taken overall, there is a reason he was taken that high, because he is a ballplayer. There is no licking your chops. I`ve got to go out and play him the same way I would play any 10-year veteran.

The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he`s going to be.

If it`s not true, it`s libel. If it`s true, just think of the ballplayer he might have been.

He`s a Cub, there`s no doubt about it. Not only is he a great ballplayer and a Hall of Famer, but he`s a Chicago Cub.

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

I`m here as an infielder and a ballplayer and wherever they put me in, that`s where I`ll be. Second base is my spot and that`s what I`ll compete for in the spring and hopefully there will be enough people who want to see the shortest infield combination in baseball.

It was surprising. He`s a really good player. He`s a really good ballplayer, a Pro Bowl player and everything. He`s a monster.

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.