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I just hope that as I get older, I calm down and enjoy the moment, enjoy the great gifts that God has given me.
When you start hanging out with Jennifer Lopez and Bill Clinton, you can't expect to remain an everyday person.
I'm a manager's player, in a way, because he can use me in a lot of different ways, and I'm willing to do that.
It really comes down to God opening the doors for me, and I'm trying to walk through them doing the best I can.
There have been nights I've stayed up late thinking about, 'What's wrong with my swing? What do I need to fix?'
I had a marvelous baseball career and after my baseball career, there is an abundance of opportunity out there.
It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir.
I'm the type of pitcher that definitely gets stronger and better adjusted to the batters as the season goes on.
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.
Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.
Just putting my uniform on keeps me going. Being able to get out there keeps me going. That's the best therapy.
Anytime you give up one run in Coors Field you expect to win a ball game. It just shows how well Myers pitched.
I couldn't sleep knowing I was going to leave my Miami. It's always going to be my home, but it's not the same.
I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.
Some ghosts haunt you for life. The best you can do is make room on the couch and get used to living with them.
If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.
Nothing makes a pitcher feel more secure than the sight of his teammates circling the bases during a ball game.
You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You are only as good as the team you have behind you.
I went out as a free agent in Boston and had a great year and I priced myself out of there market, at the time.
The poorest people are not people without money, but people without memories of happier times when they're down
I've always enjoyed baseball, but even when I was a kid I can remember viewing it with a businesslike approach.
I want to thank all my teammates who scored so many runs and Joe DiMaggio, who ran down so many of my mistakes.
We are bound to expire. Even metal which is sturdiest, rusts. Even oxygen, the breath of life, soon transpires.
I demand my kids be respectful, responsible and grateful. And they have to love the Lord with all their hearts.
If the fans think I'm a savior, that's fine. But they have to understand I'm one of 25 guys. I can't do it all.
Everything is repetition in baseball. When you get all out of whack and do something different, you feel weird.
We know you can bunt, Mick. You're not down here to bunt. You're here to get some hits and get your swing back.
I can't jump into other people's shoes, I can only speak for me. My songs are pretty much sermons put to music.
Georgie Porgie, he might buy the whole league, but he doesn't have enough money to buy fear to put in my heart.
I wasn't ready for the majors when I joined the Pirates in 1955. I was too young and didn't know my way around.
My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'
When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?
President Herbert Hoover returned his salary to the government. His idea caught on, and now we're all doing it.
Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
People out there said I was too small. It's those kinds of moments that pushed me to be where I'm at right now.
There are a lot of pitchers in baseball who should celebrate his life and what he did for the game of baseball.
When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.
There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.
Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.
St. Louis still is going to be a special place for me, whether I'm playing 3,000 miles away or 5,000 miles away.
I've done a lot of special things in this game, and for none of that to be considered clutch, it's an injustice.
Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.
I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.
If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.
I didn't go up to the plate thinking, 'OK, my goal now is to get a hit'-I tried not to think about [the streak].
It's just amazing the providence God had in my life. God was there the whole time, I just didn't bother to look.
Sometimes people complicate things by thinking too much about what someone might think of what they said or did.
Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.