I don't think it's the intent of baseball not to have black ballplayers, but we have to find a way to get these kids back. We lost them to football. We lost them to basketball. We lost them to golf. People don't see how cool and exciting this game is.

Ken Griffey Jr.

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

Home Great Year

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

Work Strength Try

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

Andy Warhol

Wing Win Way

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

Babe Ruth

Art Uphill Up

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

Home Good Yes

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

Good You Why

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

Barry Zito

Life Intelligence Use

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

Ben Zobrist

Wing Win Way

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

Bill Lee

Tis T Self-Centered

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

Time Car Your

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

Branch Rickey

Great Chance Will

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

Branch Rickey

Time Your You

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

Worth Who Two

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

Time Sports Art

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

Marriage Age Wit

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

Great Good Who

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

Christy Mathewson

T Player Play

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

Christy Mathewson

Age Young You

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

Curt Flood

You Want T

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

D. B. Sweeney

You Than T

There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life.

D. B. Sweeney

If you look at poker as a sport like baseball, then I'd be maybe a minor league or high school ballplayer. But I play with T-ballers.

Dan Bilzerian

My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.

Danny Aiello

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

Dizzy Dean

If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers?

Doug Harvey

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.

Dwight Gooden

The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.

Earl Weaver

Bad ballplayers make good managers.

Earl Weaver

You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn't mean you're grown up.

Earl Weaver

Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not... I think my baseball judgment was really good.

Earl Weaver

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.

Frank Robinson

I wanted to show Baltimore that they were getting a good ballplayer.

Frank Robinson

I try to treat all of them the same; I try to be a friend to the ballplayers. I treat them like human beings, like I would want to be treated.

Gene Autry

I'm a ballplayer. I know how hard the game is... and anybody that makes it in the Hall of Fame, I support. They become a member of our special fraternity.

George Brett

I always could hit, but fielding I had to work at. I took as much pride in fielding as hitting. I became a complete ballplayer. I knew when to take the extra base. I knew about the outfielder hitting the cutoff man. I knew when and how to bunt. I knew when to hit-and-run.

George Kell

Lots of ballplayers have their own personal music blasted by the sound systems in modern ball parks.

George Vecsey

Hundreds of ballplayers have performed well after Tommy John surgery, in which an elbow ligament is replaced by material from elsewhere on the body. More and more, athletes will perform with a bit of this or a bit of that in a joint or muscle.

George Vecsey

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

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

Honus Wagner

It's very tough for a ballplayer to get proud and keep his dignity.

Ichiro Suzuki

Kevin Durant would be welcome back in Oklahoma any time he's willing to come, and I want to be the first one he calls. He took care of the victims of our tornadoes. He took care of families. Took care of little kids. So, he has a heart, and he's not a bad ballplayer.

Jim Inhofe

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.

Joe DiMaggio

I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.

Joe DiMaggio

When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named Louis Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century.

Joe Posnanski

I have an ego like everyone else. I want to be recognized as a good ballplayer.

John Stockton

People in real life don't get ballplayers' humor, the way we talk in the clubhouse.

Justin Verlander

I don't think it's the intent of baseball not to have black ballplayers, but we have to find a way to get these kids back. We lost them to football. We lost them to basketball. We lost them to golf. People don't see how cool and exciting this game is.

Ken Griffey Jr.

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

Leo Durocher

I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.

Lloyd Waner

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

Lou Gehrig