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The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old.
The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game.
The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.
If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.
I've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years.
As a first baseman, hitting home runs is what's expected of me. But I don't really try to hit home runs.
All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
There's only one kind of tax that would please everybody - one that nobody but the other guy has to pay.
[In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.
Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.
I constantly try to humble myself; if you don't, I'm sure the game is going to find a way to humble you.
I don't understand. All of a sudden, it's not just BA and Runs Scored, it's OBA. And what is with O-P-S?
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
The world of sports is still very macho and doesn't endorse same-sex couples and gay sexual orientation.
Hector Torrez, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican?
Young Frank Pastore may have pitched the biggest victory of 1979. Maybe the biggest victory of the year!
Two weeks, maybe three. You never know with psychosomatic injuries You have to take your time with them.
There's an inner feeling you get when you get in a situation to do well in a game. It's hard to explain.
Steroids, used correctly, will not only make you stronger and sexier, they will also make you healthier.
Hell, Lou (Gehrig) it took fifteen years to get you out of a game. Sometimes I'm out in fifteen minutes.
If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.
If I have to win one game, I’d have a hard time taking anybody over Dustin Pedroia as my second baseman.
I don't get caught up in the hoopla, worry about where I'm pitching or if I'm pitching Game 1 or Game 5.
When you leave your country, it's hard to leave your family over there. My whole family is in Venezuela.
I didn't know anything about the Angels when I first got there. But they really are a good organization.
Playing third base, you rarely have time to get into a great fielding position. It's all about reaction.
To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away
If I make a mistake here and there, I'm going to come back and try and play aggressive. This is my game.
You saw him standing out there, and you knew you had a pretty damn good chance to win the baseball game.
This is what happens when you get old and have a couple of bucks. You go back and try to be young again.
There's no difference between me and you. You need something, a glove, a place to live, you let me know.
I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.
I spend more time in New York than the Dominican. I play here, I live here, so why not become a citizen?
In all the years I played, he (Stan Williams) was the only guy who ever scared me and he was on my team.
I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college
My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.
I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan.
The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost.
Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad.
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
I hope by the time that I'm done in this game, I can have half the numbers Stan Musial had in his career.
I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.
Hopefully, at the end of my career, I can look back and say, 'Wow, what a game it was in Game 3 in 2011'.
I want to be the best, and the best work. You have to earn what you get, and you have to work to keep it.
I don't know if it sounds arrogant or whatever, but I'm just trying to get better numbers than last year.
Why is it there are so many nice guys interested in baseball? Not me, I was a real bastard when I played.
I've been into photography for years and I do it as often as possible. I'm just trying to develop myself.
Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.
I take pride in the fact that you are able to make some good contributions to the sport at certain times.