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I dedicate all my time to baseball, because when you come from where I come from, you don't want to risk anything.
In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.
When we see people as losers, we treat them with contempt. When we see them as lost, we treat them with compassion.
As long as I can compete, I won't quit. Reaching three-thousand is not the finish line as long as I can contribute.
I don't love the idea of the responsibility falling on the manager. That just adds to their in-game responsibility.
While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!
I have to do a better job of minimizing the damage in that inning and getting us back in there with the lead still.
And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.
Sure I eat what I advertise. Sure I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can't be beat.
Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.
In the South, the food is outstanding. Down south, we eat to get full, and the people up north, they don't do that.
The world is not fair. If you persist in presuming it is, you will create a lot of unnecessary misery for yourself.
I don't want to get in trouble here, but the All-Star Game shouldn't count for anything. It should just be for fun.
I played for nine different teams throughout my 22-year major league career and I loved every moment of every team.
The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll be a plane crash.
If they want me I'd love to come back. I'm not going to play because I can, I'm going to play because I deserve it.
If I knew exactly what I know now and had it to do over, I'd be a switch hitter. No telling what I could have done.
The Mayo Clinic is one of the largest and most experienced medical centers treating esophageal cancer in the world.
I like to read the news, but when I pull up a Japanese site, and an article comes up with my face, I never read it.
There's a deep fly ball... Winfield goes back, back... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base.
I love catching, being involved in every pitch of the game, obviously it beats you up both mentally and physically.
Baseball can build you up to the sky one day and the next day you have to climb a stepladder to look up at a snake.
My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.
Winning isn't as important as doing well individually. You can't take teamwork up to the front office to negotiate.
Sometimes you have to experience the bad, so that you can learn to appreciate the good things that enter your life.
Sometimes we have to lose our way to find out what we really want, for we often ignore our needs until we are lost.
If you can imagine it, you can create it. That beautiful world you dream about, needs positive action to come true.
In the end you get what you deserve, the amount of effort you put in determines the amount of joy that you receive.
Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.
I'm a simple guy, you know? If I do something, it's not going to be, 'Look at this, look at that.' It just happens.
I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.
When I'm hitting, I'd play for nothing. When I'm not, any kind of money I receive makes me feel as if I'm stealing.
I'm not really in a hurry to ever wear a neck brace. That's why I'm kind of positive about it, because I'm healthy.
You don't have to be in shape to bowl. It's the only sport where there's a way to signal for a cocktail waitress.
I had a prostatectomy in the fall and fortunately it was encapsulated and I didn't have to go through chemotherapy.
If you work hard everyday and bust your tail on every play, eventually people will notice and word will get around.
I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back?
You know, I think when you coach or you manage, you make decisions, and there's some that are really, really tough.
No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.
Home plate is 17 inches wide, but I ignore the middle 12 inches. I pitch to the two-and-a-half inches on each side.
There's no place like New York. And I found out that until you go through it for a season, you really don't know it.
You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates.
I was kind of a slap hitter, trying to get base hits, hit line drives, stay below a certain trajectory with my ball.
When you're going bad, sometimes you need to relax more. I've always been intense. I didn't need to be more intense.
The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.
I like people talking about me, about my defense or what I'm doing. I like to see that, and that makes me work hard.
If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.