#ballplayer

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

#because #before #enough #even #everything

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

— Lou Gehrig

#cool #head #his #keep #loses

I think that the game is the game. I think that expansion is good for the game because it gives more jobs to the people and more ballplayers can play, but I think the game is still the game. The ballplayers, they come into the game with one thing in mind - it's their job. ↗

— Tony Oliva

#because #come #expansion #game #gives

The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that it's different somehow. It's not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money. ↗

— Tony Oliva

#believe #big #chance #change #contract

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. ↗

— Warren Spahn

#batters #business #figure #figures #games

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

— Branch Rickey

#chance #great #player #take #take a chance

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

#ballplayer #bit #even #eyes #gave

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

— Dizzy Dean

#careers #cubs #giants #help #just

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. ↗