Billy Koch Quotes

I'm ready to come out and show people I'm able to play defense.

I even steal bases. I hear all the time that I'm slow, but hey, I have 66 stolen bases.

I think my one-on-one defense is pretty good.

The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch, you're moving.

I was just a big guy running down with a big, deep pocket and little short stick putting it against my chest.

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.

The first thing I learned in boxing is to not get hit. That's the art of boxing. Execute your opponent without getting hit. In sports school, we were putting our hands behind our backs and having to defend ourselves with our shoulders, by rolling, by moving round the ring, moving out feet.

When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running.

I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

I always liked the defensive part of baseball.

I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level.

I was never a great screen and roller, obviously.

I know I'm a dog. I'm a beast especially when it comes to long jump.

I'm too athletic to play the dunker role at center.

Any time I'm healthy I feel like I'm the best defensive player in the NFL.

Call me whatever you want, but I'm eventually going to play like a power forward.

I think I can play power forward; I think I can play center as well.

I'm one of the best defenders to ever play basketball, so I'm still the first option on defense.

If someone from Germany or somewhere, who had no idea what baseball was, saw Kruk play, he'd wonder what the beer truck driver was doing playing first base.

The first time I faced him I watched him take that easy windup and then something went past me that made me flinch. The thing just hissed with danger. We couldn't touch him... Every one of us knew we'd met the most powerful arm ever turned loose in a ball park.

Brooks Robinson is not a fast man, but his arms and legs move very quickly.

If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year!

Ozzie Smith is out there roaming around like glass.