#ballplayer

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. ↗

— Rex Stout

#ball #ball game #ballplayers #detective #detective stories

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do. ↗

— Ring Lardner

#ball #ball game #ballplayer #could #game

The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be. ↗

— Bill Lee

#better #egotistical #going #guy #more

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

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

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

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