Roger Maris Quotes

I just go out and do what I can to help the team win, try and be consistent in having some good at-bats and getting some timely hits and whatnot.

I know Reggie Jackson is a good player.

You hit .350 you're a leader. You hit .250 and you're not.

Whether I hit .260 or .320, the bottom line here is to win.

If I have to win one game, I’d have a hard time taking anybody over Dustin Pedroia as my second baseman.

Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.

Mark (McGwire) is the man.

I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's foremost shortstop, but because Honus (Wagner) could have been first at any other position, with the possible exception of pitcher. In all my career, I never saw such a versatile player.

Sometimes I need to look at the scoreboard to figure out whether I'm batting hundred-plus or whether I am on zero.

You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference.

It is an interesting balance in trying to find players to make your team really good and at the same time running a financially sound operation. That is the challenge for every team.

I like to score and drive in runs more than pay attention to batting average.

I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, "Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability."

I may have got (Paul) Waner out, but I never fooled him.

I'm trying to be the best baseball player I can, to learn from what I see and get better every day.

I'm no George Brett, and I probably never will be.

Jimmy Foxx could hit me at midnight with the lights out.

A championship team wins because it already has established players, while a talented team is just beginning to establish players.

If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.

Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.

Rickey was never motivated by stats. He was motivated by numbers. Wins, runs, steals.

I am and will always be just simply a basball player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.

The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.

When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a baseball player. This is something I think about. The more I think about it, I'm convinced that God wanted me to play baseball.

This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.