The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.
You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits.
Defense to me is the key to playing baseball
Baseball is not like football, basketball where a momentum is something made. You don't really have that kind of momentum in baseball.
How can you not be romantic about baseball?
I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.
I managed the Dodgers for 20 years. It's hard to believe that there are only four guys in the history of baseball who managed the same team for 20 years or more. One was owner of the team, Connie Mack. Another was part owner of the team, John McGraw. Then there was my predecessor, Walter Alston, and me. It's amazing. In the 20 years I managed the Dodgers, 210 managers were fired.
I never knew what Amazon was. I've never seen any of those series, even on cable. I've never seen The Sopranos, or Mad Men. I'm out every night and when I come home, I watch the end of the baseball or basketball game, and there's Charlie Rose and I go to sleep.
All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.
Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.
A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.
I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow
Not only do I like to go to bars because I like to drink, I do like to drink, but I go because who do you see there? Baseball fans.
It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.
No man in the history of baseball had as much power as. No man.
There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
I'm not perfect. Nobody's perfect. But I love baseball and I love to play hard.
There are some people who might look better if you smacked them in the head with a baseball bat.
It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor.