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Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.
Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.
I don't want to be gone. I don't want to be somewhere else. I consider myself a Yankee.
My dad hit 152 home runs and that's the person I wanted to be like. My hero growing up.
From my father's side I got the strength, the mental toughness, the heart, the courage.
When you have an inconsistent season, you learn a lot about yourself and your pitching.
I've been very happy with all the teams I've played for. They all treated me very well.
He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.
If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.
I may not drive in 100 runs a year, but I can prevent 100 runs from scoring against us.
I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits.
Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well.
With all the talent around, it's sort of amazing that a woman could be up here with us.
People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate.
I love the game and I wanted to continue playing. It came to a time that I had to stop.
I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.
If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.
I'm the perfect candidate to be affected by SARS. I'm highly susceptible to infections.
If you lend someone 20 dollars and never see that person again, it's probably worth it.
If you believe the past can't be changed, you haven't read a celebrity's autobiography.
The brain is like a TV set; when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.
I haven't always thrown hard, but eventually my (velocity) caught up with my mechanics.
My job isn't to strike guys out, it's to get them out - sometimes by striking them out.
My job isn't to strike guys out; it's to get them out - sometimes by striking them out.
Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character.
I want to hit the ball and I want to get at-bats. The results really dont matter to me.
Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life.
Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.
O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.
I want to be known as a good major-leaguer, and good major-leaguers work to become good.
It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
One of my best friends, James Miller, managed to find the only Cubs hat that is all red.
The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.
My favorite, and I repeat it often while swimming is from a well known coach around here
A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest.
I take a lot of pride in playing for the Yankees, and trying to do things the right way.
I want to develop every base of my game-stealing bases, hitting, being a better fielder.
I learned that I have to work hard every day, that I can't get down if I get in a slump.
A line drive to the warning track on one pitch, I'll take that over a strikeout any day.
Watching guys win the World Series looks like a lot of fun. I'd kind of like to do that.
War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.
I went to jail. I looked like one of those savings-and-loan guys leaving the jail house.
I just come do what I've got to do, play my game. And I don't worry if anybody likes it.
Work hard, love what you do, put your best foot forward and never forget the kid in you.
I learned early on to never walk while I was on the ball field. I ran everywhere I went.
The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.
Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.
I don't need to go every day and re-evaluate, 'Am I living up to this? Or that or this?'