Ive always been a daydreamer. When the other kids were playing, I was listening to the roar at Yankee Stadium - I was always attracted to the roar of the crowd.
There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.
I played ball for the Senators, Rangers, Indians, and Yankees in the ’70′s and ’80′s. Marvin Miller was a hero in our household during that time. The players today may not even know who he is but they have much to be grateful for to this fine man. It took me ten years to make what many players make in a couple days now. He will definitely have my vote and my wife’s as well.
If I were catching blindfolded, I'd always know when it was Foxx who connected. He hit the ball harder than anyone else.
A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'
It was a death struggle every day being a Yankee you either won or you lost. There was no second place. Half of us were nuts by the end of a season.
This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming. Most of all, perhaps, these exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves, and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. I knew for whom that foghorn blew; it blew for me.
Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.
What the hell is wrong with him now?
I feel emptiness, and he probably won't be able to close his eyes for two or three days.
Everyone asks how I felt before the perfect game. You never feel bad when you're in the World Series. You've got all winter to rest.
After I won 21 games, I said, "This isn't that hard actually. I can do this every year for maybe 10, 15 years." To tell you the truth I thought I was going to be in the Hall of Fame. I really thought that. You feel so strong, so powerful walking down the street. You know you can throw a ball harder than any man in the world, or certainly the top five. Sandy Koufax knocked all of us out of the box on that one, so we would think, "I'm the second or third hardest thrower in the game."
I've seen that picture before. It was a two-seamer that didn't sink until it hit the upper deck somewhere.
If anybody needs me, I'm in my room being embalmed.
You gotta call a blacksmith.
Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind.
This 20th win means more to me than the perfect game in 1968.
If I were playing today I'd do what Joe DiMaggio said. I'd go knock on the door at Yankee Stadium and when George Steinbrenner answered I'd say, 'Howdy, pardner.'
The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees.
You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.
The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border.
I'll stick to building ships.
Sparky Lyle went from Cy Young to Sayonara.
I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid before an adult.
Hitting in a game is no different than hitting in a home run contest. It pisses me off to say Barry Bonds is the greatest hitter. He's playing in a wussy era. The game is soft. You never get thrown at today. Last thing a hitter has to worry about today is getting hit. The first thing Hank Aaron had to worry about is: Am I going to survive this at-bat because I'm black.
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