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A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.
When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.
Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind.
The game is supposed to be fun. If you had a bad day, don't worry. You can't expect to get a hit every game.
You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.
By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief.
The big trouble is not really who isn't in the Hall of Fame, but who is. It was established for a select few.
What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.
When you start worrying about who you're going to play, it could bite you. Because it really shouldn't matter.
You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.
You can get into the greatest business in the world because you can manufacture money by yourself on the field.
Al Campanis made people finally understand what goes on behind closed doors - that there is racism in baseball.
The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing.
I'm only interested in winning ball games and I can't be worrying about whether the sun's out or the moon's out.
Cincinnati beats you up for three days, and all of a sudden it's doom and gloom. I cannot live my life that way.
Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.
I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.
If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.
I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.
Kids are much more intuitive these days. Not that I'm crazy about what's on TV, but they know so much these days.
How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.
This guy don't come to the ballpark to beat you. He comes to beat you bad. This (Jackie) Robinson, he plays a ton.
Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.
I'm a believer that some messages are not meant to be shared publicly. They're meant to stay inside the clubhouse.
I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.
There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature.
IBM doesn't want its people to get frustrated and restless because it has them reaching for carrots they can't quit
The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
Listen, the word 'party' has taken on a negative connotation in our country these days. It's really bumming me out.
You've got to go with what you think is the right thing in the moment, based on everything that's presented to you.
Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position.
I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.
I don't see why you reporters keep confusing Brooks (Robinson) and me. Can't you see that we wear different numbers.
Security is something when you don't have any confidence and you want somebody to pay you when you don't do the job.
There are two differing approaches and they have different virtues, the method of talent management and recruitment.
I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty of hitting.
In order to become a big-league manager you have to be in the right place at the right time. That's rule number one.
I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.
Keep trying. Stay humble, Trust your instincts. Most importantly, act. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
On why he no longer went to Ruggeri's, a St. Louis restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded."
I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.
One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data.
If I'm honest with you, you might not like me for a day or two. But if I lie to you, you're going to hate me forever.
We have our own ocean, we've got a great bike trail - I love riding all the way to the turnaround at Hollywood Beach.
People don't realize how many of the homeless are single moms, and a lot of veterans, and people with mental illness.
Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.
Million Dollar Arm touches on many of the Safe At Home Foundations core values, such as children, teamwork and family.
For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.
I want players to look neat and responsible. Maybe it's old school, but it's kind of neat when people are always clean.