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We're in a little funk. I don't think anybody's worried about our lead.
You either get better or you get worse. Those are the only two options.
Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.
Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.
To me, as long as I can play and I'm not hurting the team, I'm playing.
The game shouldn't be called baseball. It should be called adjustments.
Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.
I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.
My main goal now is waking up healthy every day and going on with life.
I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level
Everything I learned about the game of baseball, I learned from my dad.
I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.
I'm the kind of guy that says nothing is impossible when you work hard.
Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas.
I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
The trouble with giving advice is that others want to return the favor.
Many trees could be saved if the government stopped printing tax forms.
Success is when your name is in everything but the telephone directory.
I see myself as an average to above-average catcher in the big leagues.
I ate the Green Monster. It tasted pretty nasty. It was pretty painful.
When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other.
Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.
That's all I'm really concerned about - contribute and try to win games.
When you taste winning the World Series, you want to do that every year.
One thing I always remember: Frustration is built by unmet expectations.
You just go through highs and lows as an individual payer and as a team.
When I played baseball I got death threats all the time--from my mother.
I's taken me a great deal to get here. I don't plan on missing anything.
I don't have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.
Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.
I think you have to be respectful to the people who want to talk to you.
I accept my punishment and will begin serving my suspension immediately.
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.
I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.
I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.
I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.
Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.
Being the number one pick was a great opportunity and meant a lot to me.
But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.
I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.
I'm trying not to get ahead of myself. I'm taking it one game at a time.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
My long-range mission is to be the first athlete to win the Nobel Prize.
I always try to overachieve. I feel I have something to prove every day.
My focus is on a ring, and giving the best individual performance I can.
It's hard to field the ball when you have both hands around your throat.
It can take years to earn respect, but it only takes one day to lose it.
I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.
My father was just an amateur; my mother is not even an athlete herself.