I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success.
- Greg Akcelrod
The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.
- Shaun Alexander
There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.
- Sherman Alexie
Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
- Sherman Alexie
I stopped looking around when I heard a soft "mew" and I looked toward Tate to see he was crouched. He straightened and turned to me.
I froze and stared.
Tatum Jackson, ex-pro football player, ex-cop, now bartender/bounty hunter, tall, beautiful and more man than I'd ever experienced in my life was standing on the edge of his kitchen holding a cat.
And it wasn't just any cat and he wasn't just holding it. He was cradling it.
- Kristen Ashley
When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.
- Red Barber
So their cheerleaders are ugly, their football players are wimps, and they're our archrivals because why?
- Jennifer Lynn Barnes
We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.
- Ato Boldon
The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.
- Ato Boldon
I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.
- Ato Boldon
Wrestlers are a bunch of wanna-be football players.
- Brian Bosworth
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
- Jim Bouton
I'm stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me."
I'm not hitting on you," he protested.
No?"
Believe me, you'd know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn't be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms.
- Nicholas Sparks
I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
- Jose Canseco
I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.
- Ben Chandler
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.
- Lou Holtz
As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me.
- Stephen King
...it was another year or two before I discovered that drat and draft were different words. During that same period I remember believing that details were dentals and that a bitch was an extremely tall woman. A son of a bitch was apt to be a basketball player. When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank (27-8).
- Stephen King
If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.
- Roberto Clemente
I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.
- Roberto Clemente
My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.
- Hillary Clinton
When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.
- Dwight D Eisenhower
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.
- David Cone
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.
- David Cone
If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.
- Jim Courier
The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.
- Jim Courier
Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.
- Roger Craig
When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.
- Michael Jordan
There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.
- Michael Jordan
A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
- Joe Dimaggio
I always wanted to be a basketball player.
- Ronnie James Dio
Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs.
- Thomas M Disch
I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.
- David Duchovny
You can learn a lot from a professional baseball player, if you can get one, which obviously you can't.
- Dimitra Ekmektsis
As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.
- John Elway
My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.
- Marat Safin
As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.
- Luis Figo
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.
- Jennie Finch
I still think there are some pitches in this pitching arm, so I will continue playing with USA Softball, but knowing that this could be the last time a softball player stands on the Olympic podium and has the opportunity of experiencing this - it was emotional.
- Jennie Finch
I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.
- Darren Flutie
Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what were doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
- Jonathan Safran Foer
What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
- John Wooden
In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.
- David Morse
Not only is Rip Hamilton an outstanding basketball player, he is also known for giving back to his community.
- Jim Gerlach
I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
- Balthazar Getty
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.
- Ben Gibbard
Every football player knows when his time is up.
- Red Grange
The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.
- Red Grange
The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.
- Brian Griese
There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.
- Pete Hamill
Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.
- Mark E Hyman
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.
- Eric Idle
My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.
- Goran Ivanisevic
I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.
- Reggie Jackson
There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't?
- Michael Lewis
If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.
- Kim Kardashian
Then maybe I'll hit on this sweaty, oversexed football player. Maybe we'll have meaningful discussions about politics and philosophy while we bump 'n grind. Ugh. Yeah, right.
- Kody Keplinger
A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.
- Jason Kidd
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.
- Phil Knight
Football players win football games.
- Chuck Knox
....I never expectedto lose in court. In practice, I did lose, of course. Every lawyer loses, just as every baseball player makes an out severy percent of the time he goes to bat.
- William Landay
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
- Tommy Lasorda
Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.
- Jay Leno
I stood there, 220 pounds of ex-football player, ex-public defender, ex-a-lot-of-things, leaning against the faded walnut rail of the witness stand, home to a million sweaty palms. "To Speak for the Dead" (The Jake Lassiter Series) http://tinyurl.com/69eua2t
- Paul Levine
Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
- Bob Lilly
Once I had asked, 'But are you a Democrat or a Republican?" and Jonathan said, "I'm socially progressive but fiscally conservative," and Doug Miles, a football player who also came to Sunday breakfast but only ever read the sports section and ignored everyone, lifted his head and said, "Is that like being bisexual?" Which I actually thought was funny, even though I was pretty sure Doug was a jerk.
- Curtis Sittenfeld
When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.
- Diana Lopez
I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.
- John Malkovich
As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
- Mickey Mantle
If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.
- Danny Masterson
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.
- Christy Mathewson
All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards shows for years and it's been hilarious. Everyone is always asking me what the bleeped-out parts are saying.
- Marlee Matlin
I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.
- Willie Mays
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.
- Willie Mays
I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
- Willie Mays
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
Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have.
- Brian Mcknight
Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.
- Shemar Moore
Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.
- Jeanne Moreau
When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.
- Masaharu Morimoto
My father was an all-American football player.
- Edwin Moses
In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
- Eddie Murphy
Then you've got Georgetown, and I really just like everything about them. When I went down there with my mom, it really opened my eyes to what they were all about. I have to factor in what a school like that can do for me, even away from being a basketball player.
- Nerlens Noel
I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.
- Shaquille Oneal
And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.
- Shaquille Oneal
When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.
- Hakeem Olajuwon
Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.
- Haley Joel Osment
I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.
- Terrell Owens
By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply.
- Jeanmarie Le Pen
If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.
- William Petersen
The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.
- George Plimpton
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
- Gabrielle Reece
I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work.
- Jerry Rice
It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.
- Elliot Richardson
I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
- Oscar Robertson
If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
- Oscar Robertson
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.
- Brooks Robinson
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
I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.
- Nolan Ryan
Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.
- Steve Sabol
I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.
- Ryne Sandberg
More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?
- George Saunders
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.
- Curt Schilling
To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.
- Enos Slaughter
I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.
- Al Spalding
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.
- Mickey Spillane
We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.
- Willie Stargell
I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
- Casey Stengel
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
- Casey Stengel
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.
- Martha Stewart
I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.
- Danny Strong
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.
- Ichiro Suzuki
The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.
- Ichiro Suzuki
I was not a very good football player when I started out.
- Lynn Swann
It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys focused and committed to a task. That group dynamic, and then helping them to grow as people and basketball players.
- Isaiah Thomas
If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.
- Isaiah Thomas
Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.
- Lee Trevino
I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
- Gabrielle Union
I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.
- Michael Vick
I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.
- Dwyane Wade
I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.
- Herschel Walker
I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.
- Muddy Waters
Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.
- Bradley Whitford
I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player.
- Sue Wicks
Once I grew from 6'1" to about 6'6", by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.
- Eric Williams
I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.
- Esther Williams
If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.
- Ricky Williams
I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.
- Ricky Williams
Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person.
- Ricky Williams
I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.
- Ricky Williams
The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.
- Ricky Williams
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.
- Dave Winfield
There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.
- Tom Wopat
- Greg Akcelrod
The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.
- Shaun Alexander
There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.
- Sherman Alexie
Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.
- Sherman Alexie
I stopped looking around when I heard a soft "mew" and I looked toward Tate to see he was crouched. He straightened and turned to me.
I froze and stared.
Tatum Jackson, ex-pro football player, ex-cop, now bartender/bounty hunter, tall, beautiful and more man than I'd ever experienced in my life was standing on the edge of his kitchen holding a cat.
And it wasn't just any cat and he wasn't just holding it. He was cradling it.
- Kristen Ashley
When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.
- Red Barber
So their cheerleaders are ugly, their football players are wimps, and they're our archrivals because why?
- Jennifer Lynn Barnes
We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.
- Ato Boldon
The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.
- Ato Boldon
I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.
- Ato Boldon
Wrestlers are a bunch of wanna-be football players.
- Brian Bosworth
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
- Jim Bouton
I'm stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me."
I'm not hitting on you," he protested.
No?"
Believe me, you'd know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn't be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms.
- Nicholas Sparks
I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.
- Jose Canseco
I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.
- Ben Chandler
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.
- Lou Holtz
As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me.
- Stephen King
...it was another year or two before I discovered that drat and draft were different words. During that same period I remember believing that details were dentals and that a bitch was an extremely tall woman. A son of a bitch was apt to be a basketball player. When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank (27-8).
- Stephen King
If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.
- Roberto Clemente
I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.
- Roberto Clemente
My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.
- Hillary Clinton
When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.
- Dwight D Eisenhower
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.
- David Cone
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.
- David Cone
If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.
- Jim Courier
The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.
- Jim Courier
Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.
- Roger Craig
When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.
- Michael Jordan
There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.
- Michael Jordan
A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
- Joe Dimaggio
I always wanted to be a basketball player.
- Ronnie James Dio
Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs.
- Thomas M Disch
I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.
- David Duchovny
You can learn a lot from a professional baseball player, if you can get one, which obviously you can't.
- Dimitra Ekmektsis
As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.
- John Elway
My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.
- Marat Safin
As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.
- Luis Figo
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.
- Jennie Finch
I still think there are some pitches in this pitching arm, so I will continue playing with USA Softball, but knowing that this could be the last time a softball player stands on the Olympic podium and has the opportunity of experiencing this - it was emotional.
- Jennie Finch
I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.
- Darren Flutie
Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what were doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
- Jonathan Safran Foer
What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
- John Wooden
In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.
- David Morse
Not only is Rip Hamilton an outstanding basketball player, he is also known for giving back to his community.
- Jim Gerlach
I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
- Balthazar Getty
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.
- Ben Gibbard
Every football player knows when his time is up.
- Red Grange
The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.
- Red Grange
The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.
- Brian Griese
There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.
- Pete Hamill
Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.
- Mark E Hyman
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.
- Eric Idle
My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.
- Goran Ivanisevic
I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.
- Reggie Jackson
There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't?
- Michael Lewis
If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.
- Kim Kardashian
Then maybe I'll hit on this sweaty, oversexed football player. Maybe we'll have meaningful discussions about politics and philosophy while we bump 'n grind. Ugh. Yeah, right.
- Kody Keplinger
A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.
- Jason Kidd
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.
- Phil Knight
Football players win football games.
- Chuck Knox
....I never expectedto lose in court. In practice, I did lose, of course. Every lawyer loses, just as every baseball player makes an out severy percent of the time he goes to bat.
- William Landay
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
- Tommy Lasorda
Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.
- Jay Leno
I stood there, 220 pounds of ex-football player, ex-public defender, ex-a-lot-of-things, leaning against the faded walnut rail of the witness stand, home to a million sweaty palms. "To Speak for the Dead" (The Jake Lassiter Series) http://tinyurl.com/69eua2t
- Paul Levine
Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
- Bob Lilly
Once I had asked, 'But are you a Democrat or a Republican?" and Jonathan said, "I'm socially progressive but fiscally conservative," and Doug Miles, a football player who also came to Sunday breakfast but only ever read the sports section and ignored everyone, lifted his head and said, "Is that like being bisexual?" Which I actually thought was funny, even though I was pretty sure Doug was a jerk.
- Curtis Sittenfeld
When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.
- Diana Lopez
I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.
- John Malkovich
As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
- Mickey Mantle
If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.
- Danny Masterson
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.
- Christy Mathewson
All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards shows for years and it's been hilarious. Everyone is always asking me what the bleeped-out parts are saying.
- Marlee Matlin
I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.
- Willie Mays
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.
- Willie Mays
I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.
- Willie Mays
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
Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have.
- Brian Mcknight
Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.
- Shemar Moore
Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.
- Jeanne Moreau
When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.
- Masaharu Morimoto
My father was an all-American football player.
- Edwin Moses
In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
- Eddie Murphy
Then you've got Georgetown, and I really just like everything about them. When I went down there with my mom, it really opened my eyes to what they were all about. I have to factor in what a school like that can do for me, even away from being a basketball player.
- Nerlens Noel
I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.
- Shaquille Oneal
And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.
- Shaquille Oneal
When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.
- Hakeem Olajuwon
Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.
- Haley Joel Osment
I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.
- Terrell Owens
By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply.
- Jeanmarie Le Pen
If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.
- William Petersen
The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.
- George Plimpton
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
- Gabrielle Reece
I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work.
- Jerry Rice
It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.
- Elliot Richardson
I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
- Oscar Robertson
If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
- Oscar Robertson
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.
- Brooks Robinson
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
I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.
- Nolan Ryan
Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.
- Steve Sabol
I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.
- Ryne Sandberg
More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?
- George Saunders
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.
- Curt Schilling
To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.
- Enos Slaughter
I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.
- Al Spalding
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.
- Mickey Spillane
We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.
- Willie Stargell
I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
- Casey Stengel
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
- Casey Stengel
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.
- Martha Stewart
I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.
- Danny Strong
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.
- Ichiro Suzuki
The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.
- Ichiro Suzuki
I was not a very good football player when I started out.
- Lynn Swann
It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys focused and committed to a task. That group dynamic, and then helping them to grow as people and basketball players.
- Isaiah Thomas
If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.
- Isaiah Thomas
Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.
- Lee Trevino
I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
- Gabrielle Union
I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.
- Michael Vick
I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.
- Dwyane Wade
I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.
- Herschel Walker
I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.
- Muddy Waters
Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.
- Bradley Whitford
I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player.
- Sue Wicks
Once I grew from 6'1" to about 6'6", by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.
- Eric Williams
I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.
- Esther Williams
If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.
- Ricky Williams
I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.
- Ricky Williams
Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person.
- Ricky Williams
I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.
- Ricky Williams
The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.
- Ricky Williams
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.
- Dave Winfield
There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.
- Tom Wopat
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