How're the Broncos doing?" "Like a bunch of carrots. " "Is that bad?" "Can carrots play baseball?" "I guess not. " "Then you have your answer.
I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider.
It's like apples and oranges, you can't compare it. It was just a matter of playing anyone who was breathing.
Hector Torrez, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican?
The most overrated underrated player in baseball.
So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.
I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.
The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.
When I was a kid I started a baseball team. I was a terrible player, but I put together a group of neighborhood kids. I started a hockey team. I put the kids together and got a sponsor. So I can always kind of organize people and get things done.
But wherever I was I played baseball. That's all I lived for. When I sat up on the front seat of that covered wagon next to my father, I was wearing a baseball glove. That showed anybody who was interested where I wanted to go.
I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.
I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.
The one constant in life is baseball
As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.
Baseball is green and safe. It has neither the street intimidation of basketball nor the controlled Armageddon of football. . . . Baseball is a green dream that happens on summer nights in safe places in unsafe cities.
I mean, people think I'm too intense for baseball. I've always excelled to be the best, no matter what, but it's like people think something is wrong with that.
Listen to yourself, not the noise of the world. Only you know what is right for you.
As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.
Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.