Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.
God gets you to the plate, but once you're there you're on your own.
You've got to be ready for the fastball.
It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I was working a lot of hours, but it was pretty near tireless fun for me. I'd rather swing a bat than do anything else in the world.
Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.
I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.
All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
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