If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don’t do it, and it won’t happen.
A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
Motivation is something nobody else can give you. Others can help motivate you, but basically it must come from you and it must be a constant desire to do your very best at all times and under any circumstances.
Now this is over thirty years later and the guy said he was that cab driver. He apologized and he was serious. I felt awful. He might have been spending his whole life thinking he had jinxed me, but I told him he hadn’t. My number was up.
You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn’t want to let him down.
At my age, I’m just happy to be named the greatest living anything.
The test of an outfielder’s skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.
I think there are some players born to play ball.
I’m proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world.
We need a hit, so here I go.
All pitchers are born pitchers.
When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.