Ryne Sandberg Quotes

When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.

It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.

I am not a superstar or an ego. I am just the same as I always was: Someone who plays football.

I wasn't trying to make First Team All-NBA. I just wanted to win.

I'll never try to win an award. I'm out there just playing for my team.

My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.

Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.

I just want to continue to play great football - that's all that matters. I don't really care about the accolades or any of that.

I really do try hard to be a good teammate. I can't run very fast, but I try to always run hard. I may strike out a lot, but I try to walk to set up the guys who are hitting after me.

I'm proud, I've been working with this kind of self-sacrificing people like you.

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.

The name on the front of the jersey is what really matters, not the name on the back.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

I will play with anyone for my country. I may have my personal preferences, but such preferences have never come in the way of playing for India.

And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.

I've been in this league a long time. The league's not perfect. But I'm definitely proud of a lot of my teammates, coaches, trainers, owners.

I'd rather be remembered as a player who came on and impacted a lot of games for England. If I ever take a selfish thought-process of, 'I'm doing this for myself,' then things will be seriously wrong.

I've always said, in the era that I played, all those years with the Saints, you don't come out with a big ego.

I know what being a star athlete means.

To wear this shirt, especially with the West Ham badge on it - it takes an honest player, hard-working, a player that leaves everything on the pitch and plays for the crest on the shirt.

Whatever is in the best interest of the Lakers, that's what's important to me.

It was not easy, but I think Girls' Generation members showed each other a lot of sacrifice, dedication, and responsibility.

My interpretation of football is to stay humble, work hard, and things will come.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

Everyone thinks that footballers go on the pitch and they have so much money that they think about themselves. But I am not like that.