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My intent for the Angels is we're going to play extremely well.
If you permit yourself, you can fill your day up pretty easily.
Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.
Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.
If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.
Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.
Running a ball club is like raising kids who fall out of trees.
Nothing is like it seems, but everything is exactly like it is.
80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in.
When everybodys clicking, we can put a lot of runs on the board.
People buy products for what they can do, not for what they are.
Do you realize how good you have to be to strike out 2000 times?
He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.
Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.
I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
That's what baseball is all about right there, a matter of will.
That's why I cut my hair so short. It was getting a little gray.
I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.
As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.
The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
You can get old pretty young if you don't take care of yourself.
The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'
I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar.
I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.
The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
I have no interest at all in the success of the Seattle Mariners.
I've been very, very fortunate. I never had to work for a living.
You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Prediction is very hard, particularly when it's about the future.
If my father was alive to hear that, he'd turn over in his grave.
I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.
It's amazing what you can do in this game with a heart and a brain
It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.
The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
They say it can't be done, but sometimes that doesn't always work.
You make your own luck. Some people have bad luck all their lives.
It takes time to get the whole package. Freshmen can't be seniors.
I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.
It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.
As a general comment on baseball:"90% of the game is half mental."
I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.
Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.
I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing.
Good players go into a season without a contract for the next year.
That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.
It just feels good to beat the world champs to be the world champs.