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In Kansas City, most of the time, if we'd have made it to the playoffs, we would have been happy. But our team wasn't that good.
We all have an expectancy of something, but who's to say it always goes that way? Nine times out of 10, life never goes that way.
I could hit the damn ball. No matter who was throwing. Or where the ball was. I left the bench swinging. I didn't get many walks.
Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.
You have to understand where you are on the continuum. I feel I have to be the criminal mastermind on the mound if I want to win.
I've always been big. I'm never going to be an underwear model. But I am who I am, and that has its advantages and disadvantages.
I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'
You can't control the talents He gives you, no doubt about that. But you can control the effort you put forth with those talents.
The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.
I have learned that God’s silence to my questions is not a door slammed in my face. I may not have the answers—but I do have him.
Walking around sometimes, I would love to just be able to watch people, see how they act. Sometimes I would love to be invisible.
I'm having a good time. I'm going to treat every game and every day as if they are my last because I now know that they could be.
I played because I loved it. It was incredible when they told me they were going to sign me and they were going to give me money.
Well, I hope before Glenn goes, he'll come up here so we can give him a big hug and a kiss, because that's the kind of guy he is.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
He's (Jack McKeon) been around baseball for twenty-plus years. He knows what it takes to be a manager. I hope he gets the chance.
All things pass and pain is temporary. It comes to teach a lesson and when the lesson is understood it disappears into the night.
Unless you heal the root of a problem, the pain will not go away. You can hide from it, but the problem stays until you dig deep.
When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.
The Babe is one fellow, and I'm another and I could never be exactly like him. I don't try, I just go on as I am in my own right.
Man, I've got a Rolls-Royce. Big house. Limo. All those things. This is why every kid's dream is to be a major-league ballplayer.
There's not a pill or an injection that's going to give me, going to give any player the hand-eye coordination to hit a baseball.
Base stealing for me is another sport all by itself. It's a game within a game. I'm the mouse and the cats are trying to trap me.
If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better.
If you strike out or look bad on the field, we'd get on each other. If you can't take the heat, you gotta get out of the kitchen.
I focus on what I can do in this game. I don't have speed. I'm not a guy who can have a stolen base. I wish I could, but I can't.
I miss the guys, and I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a ball, or slide into second.
I thought it might be a cool thing [food show] to do when I retired a few years later. Then retirement came slightly prematurely.
MVP is the best player in the league. I think that's too big for me. When people call me the MVP, I'm a little surprised by that.
I couldn't believe I hit .342. I hit .333 one month in Triple-A. Otherwise, I hit .279 in the minor leagues. I'm proud of myself.
Everything changes, money rules. In my era, if you were successful, you were going to make money, but you never worried about it.
While I continue to work towards another opportunity with the Majors, I'm excited to grow my partnership with SeventySix Capital.
I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.
I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me real well. If I get there, fine.
Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
The arc of Ken Griffey Jr.'s swing has gotten bigger than when he hit line drives. Juan Gonzalez is a terrific power hitter, too.
Obviously, success breeds more confidence. And it's pretty easy to be confident if you're getting a hit almost every time at bat.
Don't try to strike everybody out ... stay back and just focus on the catcher's mitt, just throw the ball low in the strike zone.
What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.
Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
There's absolutely no comparisons to me or anyone else to Willie Mays. Willie Mays, he's the greatest baseball player of all time.
I enjoy being out with the fans, I enjoy talking baseball, but to get up and tell my life story... I'm not comfortable doing that.
I can't be one of those hipster guys with a beard when I have a hair campaign. I strive to look a little bit more... all-American.
I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get checks.
When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.
It's pretty self-explanatory. If we play well, we know what our picture is. If we don't play well, we'll know what our picture is.
It's good to know you're working for someone you're familiar with, who's a friend and he has your back and you have his back also.
When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.
In my 20 years of baseball, I've been misquoted three or four times, and for someone who talks as much as I do, that's incredible.