I had a lot of fear that would motivate me to try to work hard, because I didn't know what I would do if I wasn't a baseball player.
You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys.
Baseball, of all sports, and maybe of all human endeavors, has no room for cynicism.
Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
I dismiss posts where one or other of the couple was wearing anything named by brand, or you know, baseball caps, or sweat pants, because I don't like drawing them, and I don't have to please anyone but myself.
Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.
In baseball, there's always the next day
The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.
At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3.
Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.
These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.
I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.
Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.
I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
Nothing goes to waste on the journey of life. Both good and bad experiences shape your mind and heart for what is to come.
It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.
Men who are going bald often wear baseball caps.
You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to.
Don't call 'em dogs. Dogs are loyal and they run after balls.
The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.
