Top 60 Baseball Player Quotes

I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don’t think I could have reached the heights that I have in football – being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

I never gave up as a player, and I won’t give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it’s the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.

Grafted onto street clothes and removed from the field of play, jerseys don’t even flatter men in their physical prime. Witness any baseball player wearing a uniform top over dress shirt and slacks at a press conference podium.

If there’s a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it. You know how in New York there’s a lot of scaffolding? I won’t walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck.

If you’re a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he’s good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

I was a better hockey player than I was a baseball player.

Seeing the news on ‘FOX Sports Live’ of yet another baseball player on crutches always reminds me of the September night in 2005 when I tore my Achilles tendon in Toronto.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

I kept thinking, ‘this must be the coolest job – I’d like to be a professional baseball player.’ They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.

To me, a hockey player has to be every sport rolled into one: ice skater, baseball player, football player, etc. It’s just incredible to watch!

I’ve always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

I love being an older comic now. It’s like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You’re in the Hall of Fame and it’s nice, but you’re no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.

I don’t turn off being a dad. It supersedes being a baseball player.

In regards to core training, I try to incorporate the medicine ball whenever possible. As a baseball player, there is a lot of twisting and turning that I will do. Keeping my abs strong is as important as anything else.

You realize it’s a business and that teams are going to do what’s best for them. That’s how it is. That’s what we sign up for as a Major League Baseball player.

I will say this: when you take any substance, especially in baseball, it’s half mental and half physical. If you take this glass of water and you say, ‘I’m going to be a better baseball player,’ then you probably will be.

What’s wrong with being a two-sport athlete? You’ve got Deion Sanders. You’ve got Bo Jackson. You’ve got Michael Jordan; he wasn’t a very good baseball player. There’s nothing wrong with crossing over.

I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.

I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

We’re pieces of the puzzle. If I fit in a certain algorithm, then it’ll be time for me to go. It’s tough as a baseball player, it really is, not knowing much, but you just have to play.

That’s what I love about acting. There’s never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can be a baseball player, you can be whatever you want in the acting world. I think I’ve found my calling.

If I wanted to be a professional baseball player at some point, I knew I would have to do the jump ASAP because unfortunately age is a huge factor.

My goal is not to create a better baseball player but to create a superhuman that just happens to play baseball.

I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family. But it’s always been that way for me; nothing has come easy.

I was a good athlete, a good baseball player. A great baseball player, I should say.

I don’t think Hank Greenberg thought of himself as the first Jewish baseball player – he was a baseball player who happened to be Jewish. I’m an artist who happens to be Latin.

Dusty Rhodes was a great athlete. Actually, he was a baseball player as well. He played football but he played baseball. That was his number one sport. He wasn’t always heavyset like he is. But Dusty Rhodes, The American Dream he just gets charisma.

I had a client who was a professional baseball player once, and he would go to clubs and dance for seven, eight, nine hours at a time. He wouldn’t drink, he wouldn’t take drugs – he just danced because he had so much physical energy; he was this amazing athlete.

As a baseball player, you know the commodity you’re selling, but with acting, you wonder, ‘What the hell am I doing that is so hot?’

There’s not much you can complain about – you’re a Major League Baseball player; you’re getting paid to play a game. People want to be you, wish they could do what you do. There are some complaints here and there, but there really aren’t any significant ones.

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.

I grew up as a baseball player, and given my modest size, it was always clear that I would end up playing in the infield.

I can’t imagine raising a child with a goal of that child being a baseball player or a lawyer or whatever. Odds are, they’ll be something else. In this world, there are a lot of opportunities.

I think I have a pretty goofy profile for a writer. It seems to me most writers were reading ‘Little Women’ when they were 6 months old. At the age of a lot of my readers, I wanted to be a major league baseball player. I didn’t read much.

When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten. Then I wanted to be a baseball player. Preferably shortstop for the New York Yankees.

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.

I’m not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar guy at one of those pitch-and-throw kind of things. I have a pretty good arm for somebody who’s not a baseball player.

That’s how easy baseball was for me. I’m not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

People were not ready to accept me as a baseball player. The easiest part of that whole thing, chasing the Babe’s record, was playing the game itself. The hardest thing was after the game was over, dealing with the press. They could never understand.

I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.

I’ve played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I’ve been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

I’m a championship handball player. I’m a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I’m really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.

I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream – to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That’s what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.

I’d rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.

I was a baseball player growing up and wanted to play ball.

It needs to be said, over and over again, that Stan the Man was voted by ‘The Sporting News’ as the best baseball player of the postwar decade, from 1946 through 1955.

Your career goes fast, just a blink of an eye and you’re an ex-baseball player, longer than you are a baseball player. I try not to think about it too much, but it seems like it does go fast.