Zitat des Tages über Ballspieler / Ballplayer:
I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.
I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give.
A great ballplayer is a player who will 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.
My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.
Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.
I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.
I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.
A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.
A pitcher is not a ballplayer.
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.
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.
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.
To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.
The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy.
As a ballplayer, there is no Christian way to swing a bat. There is no Christian way to swing or throw.
But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.
My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.
There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.
The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.
I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.
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.
A ballplayer doesn't make excuses.
Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
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.
If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.
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.
I'm a ballplayer. I know how hard the game is... and anybody that makes it in the Hall of Fame, I support. They become a member of our special fraternity.
I'm just the same as anybody else now. To get TB again, I'd have to go out and catch a whole new case of it. Let's forget about it. I'm a ballplayer.
You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn't mean you're grown up.
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.
