It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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 keep my eys clear and I hit 'em where they ain't.
A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice
If you don't play to win, why keep score?
I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.
I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!
But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
Feeling is to lose a major league game.
To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.
Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, "the game is never over until the last man is out." Colors can change, lives can alter, anything is possible in this gentle, flawless, loving game.
There is but one game and that game is baseball.
Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.
The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'
If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from every issue and I had this huge montage of thousands of pictures.
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