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I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.
Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.
It doesn't feel different being here (at the All-Star Game) I feel like I'm on an All-Star team everyday.
Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.
Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back
Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.
When you do things to try to help people and share things, it really comes back to you. I try to do that.
I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry!
All skills are perfected through the process of failure. Embrace loss as a necessary part of improvement.
All coaches religiously carry fungo bats in the spring to ward off suggestions that they are not working.
The absolute worst thing a person can say about your pictures is, '"That's nice." It's the kiss of death.
Healing is not an overnight process; it is a daily cleansing of pain, it is a daily healing of your life.
One thing anyone can go through is a slump. Unless you're Greg Maddux, it's going to happen to everybody.
I look back now and realize you have to learn the system. Not kiss ass, but you have to learn the system.
No one paid attention to my offense. So having 2,000 hits is one of the things that is an accomplishment.
Every time I feel mad or something, I run somewhere. It gets my frustrations away. I run and run and run.
If you're not active - and I'm not active - and you don't watch what you eat, you can get big as a horse.
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.
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
It's a good thing I stayed in Cincinnati for four years -- It took me that long to learn how to spell it.
I bet you don't know what is the first thing Little Leaguers always ask me, 'How much money do you make?'
I struggled many times when maybe it didn't look like I was struggling, and I had to work hard every day.
I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college.
The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.
When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field.
I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.
I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.
We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.
Every year it gets tougher and tougher. Mentally and physically. That's why you need to train and prepare.
I think the two most important parts of any athlete's workouts are his leg workouts and his core training.
People now are beginning to cheer for me. I've never heard that before. .. Maybe things are turning a bit.
You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.
Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.
It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.
Running after balls, diving, taking a home run away, it gives me such a good feeling. I am happy to do it.
I like Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. With the waterfall and things like that, I think it's pretty cool.
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
I'm loud. I talk too much; I think I know more than I do - those and a billion other issues I know I have.
He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact.
I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.
I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.
Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.
I am honored to have John Lloyd called the Black Wagner. It is a privilege to have been compared with him.
Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.
Every player that plays for any organization, having great fans on your side every night is a great thing.
I've got numbers in my head that I'd like to keep to myself. If I get them or pass them, only I will know.