During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.
After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.
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.
I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.
If I hadn't met those two guys (Billy Martin and Whitey Ford) at the start of my career, I would have lasted another five years.
I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.
Thank God for baseball.
I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'
My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.
You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.
All I have is natural ability.
Stay away from drugs and alcohol. Listen to your moms and dads. In this great country of ours you do whatever you set your mind to. Make us proud of you.
Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.
As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
I expected him to say, 'Hang in there' or something like that. It took me an hour to talk him into giving me another chance!
Butcher boy, damn it, butcher boy.
People say Yogi (Berra) is a strange guy, and I've heard Yogi say some funny things. But he has a beautiful wife, he's rich, and he's famous. I don't see anything strange about that.
It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.
You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run.
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