Grace only exists to be fallen from.
It's an honor playing for Bobby Cox.
If on-base percentage is so important, then why don't they put it up on the scoreboard?
I'm a different hitter than Chipper Jones. He goes up looking for certain pitches to hit. I go up there looking for something over the plate and try to hit it hard.
When we [the Braves] won the World Series in '95, I went nuts. I mean, that was my team.
A lot of people just thought I'd be a. 260 hitter all my life. I was kind of like, 'Let me make some adjustments and let me learn the game a little bit. '
I think the thing I'm most excited about is the fact that I was able to, for the most part, change pitchers' mindsets about what kind of hitter I am.
The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.
Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like - Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything - but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there
All of life is an announcement of who we are. The only question is whether this proclamation will be made by choice or by chance.
Everyone uses noise as a crutch sometimes - I've totally done it. But when you make a good-sounding record there's nothing there but you.