Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.
I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.
A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'
I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.
Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.
I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.
The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.
Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.
If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
Why do people sing Take Me Out to The Ballgame when they're already there?
When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."
Feeling is to lose a major league game.
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
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.
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.
It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one.
Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.
You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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