#ballplayer

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. ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

#any #ball #ball club #ballplayer #club

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

— Honus Wagner

#being #much #you

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

— Dwight Gooden

#ballplayer #become #father #good #helped

You never had the opportunity to play with some of the great ballplayers, but being that close around them, and being in the same category, was a great feeling, to feel that vibe of all the best players who played the game. ↗

— Rickey Henderson

#ballplayers #being #best #category #close

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