Ball Players Quotes - Page 2

• We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Player, Hands

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• I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Successful, Player

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• There are too many false things in the world, and I don't want to be a part of them. If you say what you think, you're called cocky or conceited. But if you have an objective in life, you shouldn't be afraid to stand up and say it. In the second grade, they asked us what we wanted to be. I said I wanted to be a ball player and they laughed. In the eighth grade, they asked the same question, and I said a ball player and they laughed a little more. By the eleventh grade, no one was laughing.

  Johnny Bench

  Inspirational, Baseball, Honesty

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• I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of the Chillicothe players were a red smoke against the sundown and the shoulders of the Rock Island players were a yellow smoke against the sundown. And the umpire's voice was hoarse calling balls and strikes and outs and the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song.

  Carl Sandburg

  Baseball, Song, Player

  Carl Sandburg, “Hits And Runs”

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• Good ball players make good citizens.

  Grover Cleveland

  Inspirational Life, Player, Presidential

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• 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

  Sports, Children, Growing Up

  "Flicka (2006)". Interview with David Bruce, www.hollywoodjesus.com. May 28, 2005.

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• I never wanted all this hoopla. All I wanted was to be a good ball player and hit twenty-five or thirty homers, drive in a hundred runs, hit .280 and help my club win pennants. I just wanted to be one of the guys, an average player having a good season.

  Roger Maris

  Running, Winning, Player

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• 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

  Sports, Dad, Knowledge

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• There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.

  Peter Guber

  Home, Winning, Player

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• One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role

  Scottie Pippen

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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• I always wanted to be an NBA ball player since I was eight years old. I kind of went on the road of sports and I ended up on the stage with the microphone. For me it's like a dream come full circle. I think some people do it because their agent tells them it's a good look to get some publicity. But myself, I eat, live, and breathe basketball.

  Michael Bivins

  Basketball, Sports, Dream

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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