Quotes About Ballplayers

Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.

People in real life don't get ballplayers' humor, the way we talk in the clubhouse.

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.

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

Sammy Sosa? Everybody knew who Sammy was, paid attention to Sammy. I had already signed in pro ball when he had the great homer year with Mark McGwire in '98. But I followed it, and I was proud of him because he was my countryman. There are a lot of great ballplayers from the Dominican, and he's one of the best.

One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.

Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.

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.

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.