Ninety percent of this game is half mental.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.
When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?
I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!
I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar.
Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.
You're never a loser until you quit trying.
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.
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.
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