Bill Lee Quotes

We were brothers off the field, but there was no love lost on it. We fought like cats and dogs. Wes was always trying to strike me out, and meantime, I was always trying to hit a home run off him.

I watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like thanking for the help from the Almighty to hit the home run. And as he does that, I say to myself, 'God screwed the pitcher.' And I don't know how else you look at it.

That is where I got my childhood memories, watching the Home Run Derby as a kid. Maybe some kids are watching me. I would like to return that.

I was an athlete when I was younger and played a lot of sports, including golf, but I always ended up throwing around my clubs in frustration.

Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.

I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me.

I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.

Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.

When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.

I want that fifth championship. If that does not present itself, then I'm closer to retirement.

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.

The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.

The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

I remember when I wanted every pitch to be a strike.

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

What a perfect way to end the home stand, by hitting sixty-two for the city of St. Louis and all the fans. I truly wanted to do it here and I did. Thank you St. Louis.

I myself am frustrated in just where sports are at. It's a hard thing when you're out there working every day, and you know that someone else is cheating and they may not necessarily get caught.

As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none.

I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.

I wanted to play baseball!

I have only one superstition... Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.