You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that's why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn't even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer.

- Barry Sanders

The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.

- Bill Lee

But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.

- Curt Flood

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

- Christy Mathewson

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

- Honus Wagner

I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.

- Joe DiMaggio

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.

- Mickey Mantle

I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give.

- Roberto Clemente

A ballplayer doesn't make excuses.

- Roberto Alomar