Words matter. These are the best Baseball Players Quotes from famous people such as Brin-Jonathan Butler, Charlie Rose, Dennis Haysbert, Mike McCready, Brooks Robinson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Cuban athletes represent the most expensive human cargo on earth. They are sitting on over a billion dollars of human capital if these boxers and baseball players would come over to any other field or ring in the world and begin to ply their trade.
When I think about athletes, probably my favorite guest of all time among baseball players was Ted Williams.
On my wall, along with my favorite football players and baseball players, I had Marlon Brando and Sir Laurence Olivier. These were childhood idols.
Actors want to be musicians, and musicians want to be baseball players.
Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.
Cuban athletes represent the most expensive human cargo on earth. They are sitting on over a billion dollars of human capital if these boxers and baseball players would come over to any other field or ring in the world and begin to ply their trade.
The way I feel as baseball players we are warriors. Our job is to be ready to do what we need to do on the field.
The way I feel as baseball players we are warriors. Our job is to be ready to do what we need to do on the field.
While most American labor unions have struggled for the past several decades, professional baseball players comprise one of the strongest packs of organized workers in the world.
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
In Hollywood, for me, it’s all about the movie stars and the singers. Baseball players don’t draw too much attention; we’re low key. I’m good with faces and sometimes bad with names, but I’ll walk up to somebody if I know who they are… show them some love.
Kids need role models, whether it’s baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a little positive light into their hearts and minds. We need to be a little kinder to those people because it’s not easy being that role model, looked upon as something we are all incapable of being – too perfect.
To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it is fantastic. I have to say this about them, there are so many of these guys up here that were my role models, people I looked up to, people I wanted to be like.
I want to be a professional athlete who plays for the love of the game, never quits trying to give my best and is a good role model for all of the kids who look up to baseball players.
The money that these baseball players are getting, I’m like, ‘Man I picked the wrong sport.’ But I’m having a great career. I wouldn’t change it for the world.
There are really smart baseball players. It’s a thinking person’s game.
Baseball players are not specialists; they all have to do it all. That is why I, and many aficionados, dislike the American League’s practice of replacing the pitcher with a designated hitter. This creates two players who do not have to do it all.
Despite the situation in Cuba, I had a chance to play on the national team; and compared to other baseball players and other people in Cuba, I had the opportunity to live at a level that was not very high class but in the middle.
Actors want to be musicians, and musicians want to be baseball players.
To baseball players, our caps are sacred. We integrate our caps into our strange routines and superstitions, removing and replacing them on our heads with ritual precision so they sit just so.
Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying ‘yes and’ to other people’s ideas, making statements.
I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has changed. You don’t know who’s trying to take advantage of you, what people really want.
I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has changed. You don’t know who’s trying to take advantage of you, what people really want.
When I was a kid, my heroes were not baseball players nor movie stars. My knights in shining armor were film critics.
People know more about baseball players’ contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children’s lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, ‘Do you want to bring a child into this world?’ That’s pretty dire.
Despite the situation in Cuba, I had a chance to play on the national team; and compared to other baseball players and other people in Cuba, I had the opportunity to live at a level that was not very high class but in the middle.
If you’ve ever been around a group of actors, you’ve noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It’s exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.
A comparison of the average professional baseball salary to the national average salary over the last one hundred years shows that for the first fifty years, 1920-1970, baseball players held a steady multiple of about 3.4 times the national average income.
The peacocking nature of baseball players and athletes in general – you’re all kinda competing for who’s got the most swagger.
Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it’s called the free market. That’s how most people’s salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players.
I’m a big Geena Davis fan. I have a Geena Davis-signed baseball, which is funny because I don’t get signatures from most baseball players I meet.
We’re baseball players, right? We make great money. Regardless if we don’t make the money we want, we’re still making great money. A lot of people in this world are struggling a lot harder than us.
I mean, our job is – we’re baseball players, we have to go to work. But when it all boils down, we’re just a bunch of kids out there having fun trying to entertain people.
Kids need role models, whether it’s baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a little positive light into their hearts and minds. We need to be a little kinder to those people because it’s not easy being that role model, looked upon as something we are all incapable of being – too perfect.
The reason I didn’t take the baseball route is because they don’t have rankings for baseball players.
When we went home every winter, they warned us not to lift heavy weights because they didn’t want us to lose flexibility. They wanted us to be baseball players, not only home run hitters.
We’re baseball players, right? We make great money. Regardless if we don’t make the money we want, we’re still making great money. A lot of people in this world are struggling a lot harder than us.
The money that these baseball players are getting, I’m like, ‘Man I picked the wrong sport.’ But I’m having a great career. I wouldn’t change it for the world.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Baseball players need strength but also the ability to make fast-paced, explosive movements, so their training is all about strengthening the tendons around the bone and the joint so you don’t tear the muscles from the bones.
The peacocking nature of baseball players and athletes in general – you’re all kinda competing for who’s got the most swagger.
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
I’m a big Geena Davis fan. I have a Geena Davis-signed baseball, which is funny because I don’t get signatures from most baseball players I meet.
I want to be a professional athlete who plays for the love of the game, never quits trying to give my best and is a good role model for all of the kids who look up to baseball players.
One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others.
When I was a kid, my heroes were not baseball players nor movie stars. My knights in shining armor were film critics.
Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball. It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.
It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it.
Having a father as a football and a baseball coach, I grew up around college baseball players, college football players, like, I just knew sports my whole life.
Baseball players need strength but also the ability to make fast-paced, explosive movements, so their training is all about strengthening the tendons around the bone and the joint so you don’t tear the muscles from the bones.
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