Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
How can you think and hit at the same time?
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
I stare out the window and wait for spring.
I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.
Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
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