I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball.
I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.
As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.
I think baseball has moved on in many ways and the focus on the competitions on the field is really what the game is all about. It seems to be healthy. It seems more people are watching it.
I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me.
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
Baseball is a game of inches.
Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to.
Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.
When I won the World Championship in '72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. Vance Law Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar.
I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to.
It occurs to me as we're all sitting here thinking of Mickey, he's probably somewhere getting an earful from Casey Stengel, and no doubt quite confused by now.
Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.
Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to.
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.
Young man, if that bat comes down, you're out of the game
I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!
It enrages me to see only certain players singled out for the Hall of Fame because they were born with a God-given specialty. When I take my kids to the Baseball Hall of Fame, I want them to experience the full array of talents that make the game what it is today, not just the larger-than-life freaks of nature. I want them to know that you don't have to be the biggest or the strongest to reach your goals, and that hard work and perseverance are also rewarded.
When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.
