Ryne Sandberg Quotes

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.

There's nothing to it. Baseball isn't that tough to play.

What sets baseball apart from other sports is the array of skills that every player needs: the speed, the power, the agility.

There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

I think baseball is a very fine game, and you have to enjoy it. You have to go out there and have fun.

I've played the outfield my whole life. It's like riding a bike.

It's the same game. It's baseball. National League, American League. It's baseball. I just come here and try to do my thing. Do my work and help the team to win.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

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.

The first good player I watched as a kid was Joe DiMaggio, and that was like ballet. Since then, I played sandlot and college ball and came to understand how difficult it can be.

Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You 'take in' a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.

It's fun; baseball's fun.

My dad introduced me to baseball. Then one of my friends asked if I could play on a team; my dad said I could, and I just fell in love with the game.

I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

I always liked the defensive part of baseball.

I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?

I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.

I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.

Almost any game with any ball is a good game.

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

My little brothers loved baseball. I'm not as big on that as basketball or football, but I understand the game.