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Listen to your own voice, your own soul. Too many people listen to the noise of the world, instead of themselves.
I don't think the guys I played with have ever had a problem with me. People can make up what they want to think.
When Jim Leyland calls - and I have so much respect for Jim Leyland - when he asked me to play, you don't say no.
My wife says I don't listen when she talks. But when people talk, I'm in my own world. I think - always thinking.
Complaining is like vomiting. You might feel better after you get it out, but you make everybody around you sick.
I always believed no matter where you are, as long as you're doing what you love doing, you're going to be happy.
I was pitching on all adrenaline and challenging them. I was throwing the ball right down the heart of the plate.
I've been in the same place for 10 years and having to say goodbye and clean out the locker is the toughest part.
When I'm arguing, I'm competing. I'm trying to win a game. And if that's what's called for, it's just a reaction.
When I was a minor league player, my goal was to be a major leaguer. It's no different as a minor league manager.
There was never a day when I was as good as Joe DiMaggio at his best. Joe was the best, the very best I ever saw.
BLM (Black Lives Matter) is pathetic! Obama you are pathetic! Everyone should be locked behind bars like animals!
You've got to acknowledge what you did wrong and see if you can fix it to the extent possible, and turn the page.
The most important question regarding Big Data at almost any company is: How much are your customers really worth?
I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players' equipment.
Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.
There are only two things a manager needs to know: When to change pitchers and how to get along with your players.
On a day I start, I have a turkey sandwich for lunch. I don't consider it a ritual, but I'm anxious on those days.
I don't agree with everything that any of our political leaders say or believe - that's going to happen sometimes.
I'm very bad at packing. It ends up being a circus, throwing everything in there. You never want to come up short.
Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.
An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
My biggest thing is to stay with my approach and take quality ABs to the plate. I'm just trying to keep it simple.
You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.
There is a peace deep within myself from knowing that all things are held within and sustained by the love of God.
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
When you win you eat better, sleep better and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollobrigida.
I don't think I've lost a beat at all. Because of my physique and my look...I fit in the natural action-hero role.
I've found that it's a great stress reliever to get adjusted. It takes away a lot of the tightness in the muscles.
Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.
You cannot grow unless you are willing to change. You will never improve yourself if you cling to what used to be.
God gave you a heart to love with, not to hate with, God gave you the ability to create Heaven on earth, not Hell.
When someone asks about Boston, I put my brain on pause. I feel like I took a 5,000 pounds off my back to be here.
You're just trying to throw the best pitch you can and make sure you hit your spots. I don't have to force nobody.
If I didn't play baseball I don't know what I would do. It just doesn't seem right if I go a day without baseball.
I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.
Whenever I think of Milwaukee, I think of the American League. Hmm, Boston, Atlanta, weren't they the Browns, too?
As I get older every year, I'm eating better. As a kid, who can turn down chips and candy? But I'm getting better.
(Jim) Landis is such a good player because he plays every day as if he expects to be sent to the minors next week.
Because I want to have my arm in good shape, I need to have my legs in good shape. Without a leg, there is no arm.
Every time I walk out onto the field, I feel that I can be the best one in the game and that I can be a superstar.
I wanted to be a part of something special and contributing to the launch of a new league was very exciting to me.
It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had never hit those 61 homeruns... all it brought me was headaches.
Going home and just seeing what a mess youth baseball was was an eye-opener. I just want to make it a better game.
I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not write it sooner.
I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that.
The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away.
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.