Best Baseball Player Quotes

At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am. — Adam Dunn

I couldn't have done it without my players. — Casey Stengel

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

Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseball right now, if not the best. — Bryce Harper

It will revolutionize baseball. It will open a new area of alibis for the players. — Gabe Paul

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

When you've learned to believe in yourself, there's no telling how good a player you can be. That's because you have the mental edge. — Rod Carew

I'm a baseball player. Not being able to play baseball certainly was a lonely thing. — Hideki Matsui

My name is not 'The Best Player in Baseball.' My name is George Kenneth Griffey, Jr. — Ken Griffey Jr.

I am and will always be just simply a basball [sic] player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball. — Jose Canseco

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point. — Jose Canseco

No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. He's the best I've ever seen. — Ryne Sandberg

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game. — Branch Rickey

Anytime you put a baseball player in a suit and take him out of his element its uncomfortable. — Paul Konerko

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

If you gave me a choice between being married and being a baseball player, that's a no-brainer. I would be married any day. I just love it. — Lance Berkman

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero. — Edward Abbey

I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle. — Gabe Paul

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

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. — Roberto Clemente

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional baseball player instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not. — Casey Kasem

Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting. — Shemar Moore

I have never discussed a player contract with an agent and I like to think I never will. — Walter O'Malley

I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid. — Bryan Cranston

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player. — William Alexander

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003. — David Cone

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

Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays. — Cal Ripken Jr.

I never saw a player who had greater promise. — Casey Stengel

I love sports. If I could be a baseball player I would. I just am not good at it at all. — Eric Hutchinson

When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both. — Graig Nettles

I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player. — Reggie Jackson

He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact. — Dan Quisenberry

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

More than any other games, baseball gives its players space - both physical and emotional - in which to define themselves. — John Eskow

Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions. — Sherman Alexie

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny? — Sydney J. Harris

I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45 when he played baseball. — Jerry Reinsdorf

The Big Hurt describes me perfectly-not as a person, but as a player. It's what I do to a baseball. — Frank Thomas

A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly. — Phil Jackson

If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor. — John McGraw

Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them. — Mickey Mantle

You can learn a lot from a professional baseball player, if you can get one, which obviously you can't. — Dimitra Ekmektsis

I'm merely a baseball player, guys, ... In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance. — John Rocker

Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player. — Marsha Warfield

It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two. — Joe Garagiola

Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker. — Walter Johnson

Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything. — Doug Harvey

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw. — Willie Mays

When you hear from other players and they're telling you you're the best pitcher in baseball, that makes you feel really good. — Johan Santana

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

How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star. — Jason Giambi

I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio. — Mickey Mantle

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next? — John McGraw