You walk into the locker room, and you see players with their ripping muscles and stomachs you could wash your clothes in.
I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was no good.
Reggie Smith of the Dodgers and Gary Matthews of the homers hit Braves in that game.
This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.
By the time I got to high school, I didn't play anything but baseball because I was on a mission. I really wanted to get a scholarship. I really wanted to focus all my time and efforts on baseball. When I got up to Florida State, God spoke to me very clearly and called me out of that and called me into music, which up until that point had just been a hobby.
I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me.
The last time the Cubs won the World Series was 1908. The last time they were in one was 1945. Hey, any team can have a bad century.
As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.
No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.
I didn't know whether to laugh, s*it, or go blind!
You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U. S. S. Alabama in the South Pacific.
There's a deep fly ball. . . Winfield goes back, back. . . his head hits the wall. . . it's rolling towards second base.
Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.
Yes, in baseball when the team stinks, you fire the manager. But you don't fire him because it rains. And you don't let the opposing team choose a new manager for you. And you don't fire him between innings. And replace him with a Viennese weightlifter.
I protest that we fans are being emotionally starved and frustrated by long periods of perfect performance of these batteries. More over, when there are nothing but strikes and balls going on, you relapse into your worries over the Bank of England, or something else.
How're the Broncos doing?" "Like a bunch of carrots. " "Is that bad?" "Can carrots play baseball?" "I guess not. " "Then you have your answer.
Jesus Christ. If he can play, I got to play, too.
Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).
A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.