#player

If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself. ↗

— Dan Marino

#any #anybody #ask #best #certain

I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do. ↗

— Dan Marino

#consistent #great #how #i #just

A pitcher is not a ballplayer. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

#pitcher

The players get no respect around here. They give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and players from other teams love to see that. That's why nobody wants to play here. ↗

— Don Mattingly

#constantly #dogged #get #give #here

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. ↗

— Willie Mays

#bases #field #game #good #hit

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

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #became #before

The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty. ↗

— Will McDonough

#contracts #fan #hurt #jump #loyalty

I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did. ↗

— Will McDonough

#did #i #once #play #players

The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents. ↗

— Will McDonough

#changed #courts #free #free agents #freedom

I haven't seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid. ↗

— John McEnroe

#brother #came #come #connecticut #few