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The best thing about baseball is that you can do something about yesterday tomorrow.
When you give your team five innings, you don't really feel good about five innings.
You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.
I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.
Warming up for the Brewers is that lefthander they got from the Mets, Bill Pulitzer.
I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.
I doubt that I will get involved with politics. That's something I don't have in me.
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.
He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms.
Sometimes, when you don't have spark, someone in the dugout has to create something.
Life is a bank account, there are no withdrawals without first putting something in.
Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).
Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.
The day I'm able to be debt-free is the day I'm going to be the happiest guy around.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.
I think it's just getting comfortable in New York City, comfortable in your own skin.
You've got to have camaraderie or togetherness on a baseball team if you want to win.
I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.
The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.
I never lost confidence in myself, no matter what the years were like or the results.
The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.
I could field as long as I can remember, but hitting has been a struggle all my life.
After losing LaRoche, I have to step up a little bit. I have to do what I need to do.
I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.
Really, anyone can learn how to fly. If you can drive a bus, you can fly an airplane.
The only thing my father and I have in common is that our similarities are different.
You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.
I'm an easy person to get along with. Even when I struggle, I have the same attitude.
It doesn't seem like the season really gets under way until you have your home opener
He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology.
Not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.
Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.
The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
There have been some ups and downs, but I'm happy that I've stayed fairly consistent.
I spent a lot of hours on the baseball field doing whatever I could do to get better.
You know, catching the knuckleball, it's like trying to catch a fly with a chopstick.
They've taken the foot off Johnny Grubb. Uh, they've taken the shoe off Johnny Grubb.
There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.
I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar.
I'm very proud of my area around the plate. I don't want anyone messing with my dirt.
I want to show that I can pitch well and get along with the guys in the locker room.'
If I can get on base once or twice a game, steal a bag, do something, then I'm happy.
I think any great performer or athlete has to have a little bit of a gut to be great.
I miss everything that makes up Panama. I don't have a preference. I love my country.
I would tell everyone to go to college, no matter what. It gives you time to grow up.
If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage.
I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.