There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.
Hell, if I didn't drink drink or smoke, I'd win twenty games every year. It's easy when you don't drink or smoke or horse around.
People frequently ask me if adverse criticism bothers me. I've had a lot of it, and I have been able to shrug most of it off.
The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three days.
I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.
When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.
I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.
This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!
All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for.
If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.
My whole career, my swing has always been the most important thing to me. Even when I'm taking a shower, I work on my swing.
For me, seeing the progression of video games and consoles - whether it be PlayStation, Xbox, or whatever - I think just seeing how good they've gotten from the days when I first started playing is just amazing.
The tide was a poem that only time could create, and I watched it stream and brim and makes its steady dash homeward, to the ocean.
I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.
Ben wore the same goofy smile as in the photo. Take that, new guy! I can make him happy too!
You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.
These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.
She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts.
In every southerner, beneath the veneer of clichés lies a much deeper motherlode of cliché. But even cliché is overlaid with enormous power when a child is involved.
Ball teams do not always run true to form in a short series. In a season's campaign, class will tell; the best team will invariably win, unless disaster overtakes it. In a short series, some freak situation, same unusual play, may prove to be the tur...
