Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.
Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.
Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.
NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.
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