Smile well and often, it makes people wonder what you've been up to.

NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.

And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes.

I really think there is a certain destiny in my life to lead people.

God gets you to the plate, but once you're there you're on your own.

I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.

Losing sucks. I don't think most people understand how bad it feels.

When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.

I gave out stars whenever an appropriate situation presented itself.

This time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with.

Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action.

If you put the ball in the right place, you don't have to throw hard.

It kills me when I make a bad pitch...I want to be perfect out there.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

I put it into my mind to become a complete player, a complete player.

The way I look at it, 29 teams fail every year and one team succeeds.

As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.

For the most part, I don't think I'm any different than anybody else.

I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.

I'm a guy that people look at me not only as a guy that hit the ball.

I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit.

This is why you play - to get an opportunity to play in the playoffs.

I've always been uncomfortable, so to speak, when the focus is on me.

Slud is something more than slid. It means sliding with great effort.

I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.

Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.

I asked no odds and I give none. A guy got in my way, I run over him.

Stan Hack has as many friends in baseball as Leo Durocher has enemies

The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery.

I think if everyone is clean, then who cares about how you're tested?

Trailing 5-1, the Padres added an insurance run in the eighth inning.

Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

The last thing I want to do... is offend people and ostracize myself.

I think you want to try every sport possible just to experience life.

It doesn't matter how much money you make; it's where you feel happy.

I've been swinging the same way since I was born. It's always worked.

Everything starts with God in my career, and it will finish with God.

To get a save in the World Series is the reason I can't stop smiling.

L.A. kinda raised me a little bit as a 21-year-old kid from Oklahoma.

I think the one person that has the most influence on me is the Lord.

Growing up, I was such a picky eater. I'm finally starting to expand.

I feel very fortunate that I played for the four organizations I did.

I never found a place where I wanted to live more than Alvin (Texas).

We grew up poor, very poor, but I am very proud of where I come from.

You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.

I'm not going to go back to gambling; I mean, it's as simple as that.

He's (Bruce Sutter) going to be out of action the rest of his career.

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