I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.
I went to college for a reason, and that was to skip the minor leagues. I spent a year in the minors and got my at-bats in, and then I felt like I was ready for the big leagues.
After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.
Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to do with talent. It was mostly about the governor I was covering, Bill Clinton.
I'd like to help out in any way I can, especially with the younger guys in the minor leagues. But as far as setting something up, we haven't really talked about it.
If you got a hit every third time that you went up to bat in the major leagues, you'd be the greatest hitter of all time. I think my average is a little better than that.
I still don't know how I got to the big leagues because I wasn't that good.
I perform in the major leagues of what I do. It's incredible.
I'm not in the big leagues just because I'm cute.
Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit.
Christmas Day was special because everybody is watching at home. That's what I loved about Christmas Day because it shined the spotlight on the Lakers, on our team, and we knew that all of the other leagues were at home and millions of people were watching. So it made it a special day to play on Christmas.
Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.
If you don't set goals, you'll never reach them. Or like they say in golf, if you aim for nothing, you'll hit it every time. Take any player in the major leagues: I'd say just about everyone of them had a dream - a goal - to be a big-leaguer when they were kids. It wasn't an easy goal, but it was a reachable one, and that's important.
Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.
When you're a first-round pick and you get to the big leagues at 22, there's almost a sense that you've got to mature.
You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it
I couldn't believe I hit. 342. I hit. 333 one month in Triple-A. Otherwise, I hit. 279 in the minor leagues. I'm proud of myself.
We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time.
As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues.
On Platini's presidential watch. . . he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent.
