Top Ballplayer Quotes
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
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
The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
Lou Gehrig
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.
Willie Mays
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
Branch Rickey 
Nomar Garciaparra 
Bill Lee 
Roberto Clemente 
Lou Gehrig 
Mickey Mantle 
Babe Ruth 
Joe DiMaggio 
Steve Garvey 
Tris Speaker 
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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 
89% of people like this quote
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
62% of people like this quote
The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.
Lou Gehrig
62% of people like this quote
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.
Willie Mays
61% of people like this quote
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
58% of people like this quote
Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
Mickey Mantle
58% of people like this quote
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
56% of people like this quote
How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.
Branch Rickey
56% of people like this quote
To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.
Mickey Mantle
54% of people like this quote