I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.
On the days I'm pitching, it's almost a coin flip as to know if the guys behind me are going to be there to play 100%.
Really, anyone can learn how to fly. If you can drive a bus, you can fly an airplane.
This is normal, to have pressure. It's how you respond. Take the pressure, use the pressure, have fun.
I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.
Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.
The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.
If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.
The most validating thing was when my picture was on my first bubble gum card. That was in '68 for me. I was finally on the Topps card.
You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.
There are guys in the game only because of steroids. They couldn't make it with their natural talent, so they had to enhance themselves. It sucks.
I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.
