If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
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.
One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
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.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."
Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.
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.
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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.
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again.
Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.
I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!
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