Billy Herman Quotes

Until spring training in 1946, the only time I pitched was in 1945 in the GI World Series.

You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself.

The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

Since 1869, baseball has been doing pretty well.

I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.

From the time I was 3, I wanted to be a major-league player. To accomplish that at 35, get my name on my jersey, be in the clubhouse with major-league players, see my family for the first time in three months, be in my home state and pitch the day I got called up, was incredible.

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.

I've always been a great lover of baseball.

Baseball has been my favorite sport all my life.

When I was around eleven or twelve, my board got hung up on the top of a bowl, and I got a concussion, and I knocked my teeth out. That was the first time that I got seriously injured, and I was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, and my parents briefly doubted.

I'd love to play in a Red Sox game. It would be so awesome to actually walk out on the field and play, just for one inning. I'd also steal everything I could get my hands on in the clubhouse, which is why they won't let me do it.

I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

My favorite sport is baseball; my cousin is pitcher Heath Bell.

It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.

You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.

[Referring to Jack Kemp:] … a football player who has played too much without his helmet.

When I grew up, baseball was the No. 1 sport.

When I was 15 and playing in Kalamazoo, I ran into a light pole on the side of the court and was knocked out for a little while - when I woke up, I was seeing stars!

To be called a Cy Young award winner is something I could have never imagined ever happening to me. I'm just always amazed at the blessings that came my way over the years.

To put on the pinstripe - it's extraordinary. Just being able to play one game with the Yankees is quite an honor.

Baseball is what I always wanted to do with my life.

My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.