The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field.
How can we all be better? We can be better by constantly evolving and not saying, Because baseball has always had men, let's make sure we keep it that way. I think we should always challenge ourselves to do things that have never been done.
I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that's what I try to do.
He can be lethal death.
Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?
I wanted to be like Nolan Ryan. I didn't want to be like Pete Gray. . . And I don't want kids to be like me because I have one hand. I want kids to be like Jim Abbott because he's a baseball pitcher at Michigan and he won the Big Ten Championship game, and not because I can field a bunt and throw to first.
Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.
Chuck Norris has been known to throw a baseball 100 mph. I've been known to throw Chuck Norris 100 mph.
If a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, I will reinstate you back into baseball.
If U. S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.
He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.
I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.
That's the result of the black cloud on baseball,. . Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that.
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
You have to have a lot of motivation, a lot of heart and be able to work hard. You can never be down on yourself because baseball is a sport that will bring you down [at times].
No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.
I loved playing baseball, and the only reason I played was to play professional baseball. I wanted that to be my career for a long time. I turned down multiple jobs and meetings because of it.
I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.
I don't think baseball can abandon the Miami market. If MLB does let that market go vacant, I think it'll be one of the biggest mistakes they ever made.
I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.