Ballplayers Quotes

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

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.

Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told.

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

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.

You never had the opportunity to play with some of the great ballplayers, but being that close around them, and being in the same category, was a great feeling, to feel that vibe of all the best players who played the game.

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

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