Too bad integration didn't come sooner, because there were so many ballplayers that could have made the major leagues. That's why, you look back, and - not to take away anything from Babe Ruth or some of those other guys - they didn't play against the greatest ballplayers in the world.

Hank Aaron

Sammy Sosa? Everybody knew who Sammy was, paid attention to Sammy. I had already signed in pro ball when he had the great homer year with Mark McGwire in '98. But I followed it, and I was proud of him because he was my countryman. There are a lot of great ballplayers from the Dominican, and he's one of the best.

Alfonso Soriano

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.

Andrew Benintendi

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

Andy Warhol

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Babe Ruth

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.

Babe Ruth

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.

Barry Sanders

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

Barry Zito

As a ballplayer, there is no Christian way to swing a bat. There is no Christian way to swing or throw.

Ben Zobrist

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

Bill Lee

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.

Bob Uecker

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

Branch Rickey

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.

Branch Rickey

Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.

Bum Phillips

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.

Chad Harbach

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.

Charlie Sheen

If I was the Jackie Robinson of golf, I sure didn't do a very good job of it. Jackie was followed by hundreds of great black ballplayers who have transformed their sport... But there are hardly any black kids coming up through the ranks of golf today.

Charlie Sifford

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

Christy Mathewson

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

Christy Mathewson

But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.

Curt Flood

As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

D. B. Sweeney