Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.
It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one.
I stare out the window and wait for spring.
I really didn't say everything I said.
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
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.
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.
You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.
How can you think and hit at the same time?
Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn't allow visitors in the clubhouse.
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.
I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
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.
We made too many wrong mistakes.
I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
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.
I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.
When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."
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