#ballplayer

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer. ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#best #could #ever #happen #play

I'm a ballplayer, not an actor. ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

#ballplayer #i

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

— Babe Ruth

#feel #quit #run #should #starts

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

#being #believe #going #golden #i

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

— Curt Flood

#doing #here #i #i want you #know

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

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

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist. ↗

— Rogers Hornsby

#any #autographs #ballplayer #communist #kids

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

— Leo Durocher

#come #diving #give #give me #hungry