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I just keep my game plan the same and try to just go out there and be efficient and attack the strike zone.
I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.
The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. I always remember, "Spring back or Fall in.
Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about that game, but I don't remember when it happened last.
I'm going to play my game and be who I am. I don't think anyone puts more pressure on me than I do on myself.
To obtain success, you must get the most out of your ability and to do that you must work on your weaknesses.
No matter what players say or people say, you want to be liked and appreciated, even if you've had a downfall.
Major League Baseball is the best league in the world, full of capable hitters up and down every single lineup.
It's the youth movement we have. A lot of young guys with a lot of passion. It brings the fun back to the game.
I mulled over what he had told me as I savored the Scotch. Not bad, really - like a beer that's been in a brawl.
Because I have so much life on my pitches, I can get away with getting too much of the plate every now and then.
Once you make the majors, it's never a great feeling to go back to the minors - no matter what the circumstances.
I think my parents did a great job of reminding me that I wasn't as big a deal as maybe I thought I was at times.
I'll be satisfied with what I've got at the end of the season, ... If I can play every day, the numbers will come.
I know winning 20 is a special kind of thing, but I'd rather get into the playoffs, and be strong for the playoffs.
A rhododendron bud lavender-tipped. Soon a glory of blooms to clash with the cardinals and gladden the hummingbirds!
The worst program in the world, if you believe in it 100%, is better than a great program that you don't believe in.
Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about the (perfect) game, but I don't remember when it happened last.
I think I went through everything anyone who had a long career needed. I needed quiet. I needed to raise my children.
When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.
Changes your life, getting into the Hall of Fame. For the rest of my life, I'll be known as Hall of Famer George Kell.
What we should have done a long time ago was stand up - players, ownership, everybody - and said: 'We made a mistake.'
When I'm doing well, it's like I'm in a nice little ballet. Everything is going slow all around me. It's very peaceful.
I felt the Lord at a young age. And it was one of those things where that seed was planted, you know, when I was a kid.
Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.
You get into pro ball and you realize all the guys were the best players on their teams. You have to keep moving forward.
Maybe anything that anybody ever has is for now. What happened before is gone, and what will happen later is an illusion.
I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.
What the market is doing is going through a correction, which it really needed. It's getting down to where it's reasonable.
If you just go with the flow, no matter what weird things happen along the way, you always end up exactly where you belong.
I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?
People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.
The Olympic games should be a matter between individual athletes and the gods. Noisy flag-waving dishonors gods and men alike.
I've never given anybody steroids before. I've been checked out three times already, and I'm clean. I've been clean all my life.
We speak for the entire Giants organization when we say that there is no place in society for hatred and bullying against anyone.
The power of home run hitters in the majors is different from those here. It's probably difficult for me to match that power now.
I never did like Cleveland. Don't know why. Didn't like the town. Now, the people are all right, but I just didn't like the town.
Every time there was an unspoken promise that this would be the last time, but it would only be the last time until the next time.
I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.
Spooky wild and gusty; swirling dervishes of rattling leaves race by, fleeing the windflung deadwood that cracks and thumps behind.
I wouldn't throw all spitballs. I'd go maybe two or three innings without throwing a spitter, but I always had them looking for it.
Everyone asks how I felt before the perfect game. You never feel bad when you're in the World Series. You've got all winter to rest.
Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.
It would be great to just be able to ignore everything and pitch to a spot, to suppress the intellect and let the intuition take over.
I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants
The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.
Quit now? They'll have to cut the uniform off me. I'm going out for another 300. They couldn't be any harder to get than the first 300.
Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.
You can't call it a sport. You don't run, jump, you don't shoot, you don't pass. All you have to do is buy some clothes that don't match.
It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.