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He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.
It's amazing how everything here seems like it's in abundance. In Cuba, there is a shortage of everything.
There is no need for revenge. Living happily ever after is a sign that you have not let the past beat you.
By letting go, you allow everything to find it's rightful place. Once free, everything finds its way home.
Life is a reflection of what you think. If your thoughts are negative, the world you see will be the same.
Sammy Sosa's a September player, so you have to watch out for him. It's crunch time, time to make history.
I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
Those huckleberries in the National League don't want to do anything that the American League wants to do.
You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.
Look at Sammy Sosa-before he was skinny. Now he's big and he hits a lot of homers. Maybe I'll be the same.
I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in.
I don't like to be the guy that stands out. I like kind of sneaking up on guys instead of being out front.
At my growing years of 18 to 21 years old in the Minor Leagues, I dreamed of being a Philadelphia Phillie.
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man, and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.
I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?
Toughest thing for me as a young manager is that a lot of my players saw me play. They know how bad I was.
I wouldn't play in Minnesota unless my career was at an end and I had to go to Minnesota to play the game.
Confidence is everything. If you start second guessing yourself, you're bound to run into more bad outings
I pride myself on being consistent. So, yes, it definitely means something, even though I don't set goals.
Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.
The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.
I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park.
I always said that when it was time to retire, I would know it, and I would just tip my hat to the crowds.
For seven years, I was in this fishbowl with this intensity, with all the stuff that went on with the Mets.
People want me to do things, be a certain way and that's not going to happen. I'm going to be Albert Belle.
I've learned in my career, it is much better to be recognized for all the great things you do on the field.
It's not enough to be sick and tired of something. You've got to be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
One-hundred years from now, nobody's going to remember that I played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays - nobody!
Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.
That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.
I really like triples. You hardly ever see me stop at second. My goal is third and that's where I'm headed.
We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.
As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.
It all comes down to when spring training comes. Do you want to go or don't you? If you want to go, you go.
Slapping a rattlesnake across the face with the back of your hand is safer than trying to fool Henry Aaron.
At the end of the day that's why I play the game, to glorify Him in everything I do and to compete for Him.
I've grown up and understood how I'm supposed to conduct myself and I respect people as I go along the way.
Clemens and Maddux have defined our era, I believe. And Randy Johnson is right behind them and still going.
Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times.
I'm the same guy I've always been. I'm the same guy now as when I was hitting 50 home runs. I don't change.
If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.
I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.
As you get older, it gets harder to get rid of that belly but I do a lot of cardio to try to stay in shape.
In spring training I'm in every newspaper (in Korea) every day. In the regular season, they watch it on TV.
If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face because I'm lying.
Some guys play not to get hurt, and they're never really as good as they can be. That's not the way I play.
Boros is not with the team today because he's attending his daughter's funeral. Oh, wait, it's her wedding.
I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.
Being able to help, being able to go out there every five games, is definitely something I was waiting for.
With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.