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Ball Player Quotes

Kurt Russell quote: "I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball..."
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me. Kurt Russell
A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues. Joe DiMaggio
But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen. Tim McGraw
Casey Stengel quote: "I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill."
I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill. Casey Stengel
Roberto Clemente quote: "If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With..."
If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body. Roberto Clemente
As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due. Mickey Mantle
Willie Stargell quote: "We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We..."
We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed. Willie Stargell
I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing. Al Spalding
Enos Slaughter quote: "To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game."
To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game. Enos Slaughter
It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task. Elliot Richardson
Red Barber quote: "When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you..."
When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons. Red Barber
Balls should be good for at least six sets, and for more for the average player. But if the rallies are long, they do not last as long as this. There is a fuzz on the surface that wears off on the hard court. Helen Wills Moody
I often felt as a player in a 4-4-2, you end up being outnumbered in midfield and chasing the ball, so as a manager I liked wingbacks to push forward; it gives the midfield player on the ball three or four options. Glenn Hoddle
The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action. George Plimpton
I'm not a person or a selfish player, but we have to move the ball more, and we have to look further the team game, because we have enough talent to use different players. Pau Gasol

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