#ballplayer

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

— Branch Rickey

#biggest #biggest problem #how #leisure #leisure time

I'm a ballplayer, not an actor. ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

#ballplayer #i

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

— D. B. Sweeney

#ballplayers #better #far #find #go

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back. ↗

— Steve Garvey

#about #back #ballplayer #between #cared

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was. ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#ever #good #man #roger

I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth. ↗

— Roger Maris

#babe ruth #ballplayer #break #damn #great

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

— Christy Mathewson

#first #his #looks #regards #spring

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

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