The sanctity of prayer is needed to impregnate business. We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until Saturday. But this cannot be done by prayerless men, but by men of prayer.
Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged the...
I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.
We have to keep our fans watching not just at home on TV but here at the racetrack too. This is where you sell people on the speed and excitement of racing.
On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
I probably didn't put forth the effort I should have put forth, didn't realize the value of education until I went to college.
I firmly believe that there is a God. I firmly believe that there is a Heaven. And I firmly believe that if you go there, it's gonna be great.
You can't put a price on what Mark McGwire brings to the Cardinals organization. The responsibility he accepts is as great as any number of home runs.
I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.
In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.
You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you.
But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away.
With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.
I'm a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.
I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.
The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined.
If something happens to me tomorrow, I'm going to go to Heaven, and that's for sure because God's promised to us in the Bible.
I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.
I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.
