#ballplayer

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

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

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

— Dwight Gooden

#ballplayer #become #father #good #helped

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

It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now. ↗

— Mickey Gilley

#babe ruth #ballplayers #lot #make #money

The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy. ↗

— Tris Speaker

#ballplayer #brains #cobb #could #crazy

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that. ↗

— Nomar Garciaparra

#ball #ballplayer #because #bugs #bunny