I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.
Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.
When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named Louis Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century.
If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.
The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.
A ballplayer doesn't make excuses.
I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.
The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.
The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.
I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give.