Slump? I ain’t in no slump... I just ain’t hitting.
The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.
I love baseball, I really do. I always told my Dad, I’m not gonna make it working... I like to play ball too much. Which I did. I played hard. You gotta work at this game. You really do. And its fun doing it if you do it the right way.
Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game.
The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that’s it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.
Stick a fork in him. He’s done.
I’d rather be lucky than good.
It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.
The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed.
If you can’t outsmart people, outwork them.
The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.
How can you not be romantic about baseball?
You have only two hemispheres in your brain – a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and the right controls the left half. It’s a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.
I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
I don’t think about how many people are watching me. I’m just happy to play baseball for myself.