I come to spring training and just try to do my job, try to do the best I can. That's all any player can do.
Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.
I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.
I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope or as a 400 basball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.
The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
Yankee Stadium is a natural venue for another lesson: You won't succeed all the time. Even Ruth, Gehrig, and DiMaggio failed most of time when they stepped to the plate. Finding the right path in life, more often than not, involves some missteps.
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
When I became the manager of the New York Yankees, it was an opportunity to realize my lifelong dream of winning the World Series. We were fortunate enough to succeed in our first season in 1996, and in the years that followed, we wrote some great new chapters in Yankee history.
You're always going to believe in yourself, and I have to thank God for that, but it's pretty hard to believe that you can make it to the big leagues and that you can possibly get 200 hits three years in a row. I feel very proud.
I think Red Sox fans have always been good to me; they've treated me well.
In the movies, I never lost a fight. In baseball, I hardly ever won one.
I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing from America I really miss.
The pitcher is in trouble, not me. He has to throw it over the plate and I have to put a good swing on it.
I was always a little hesitant to accuse people of loading a bat to hit a ball farther. I was always very hesitant to approach people because I never had any evidence that I had firsthand knowledge of.
Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of different positions. He signed as a shortstop. He could play the outfield, of course, and third base and first, too. He was a tremendous athlete. Mickey Mantle was unbelievable, too.
The game can come down to one pitch. But when you're actually out there on the mound and when you're pitching, you can't be worrying about the margin of error or whatnot. You have to go with your strengths and what you believe is the right pitch and keep executing pitches.
Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.
Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
You can't win them all but you can try.
I feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization.
When the ball was hit, my first reaction as a shortstop was always go in the direction of the ball. You can't do that at first base. You go too far in that direction, and it's hard to scurry back and be ready to pick the throw.
Scouts always think they're right. They're not right all the time. They don't even know how hard it is. Most of those scouts never played baseball.
Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
I just try to make contact with the ball. It's obvious that I like to swing the bat. I'm not thinking of taking a lot of pitches.
