How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
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.
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.
There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.
If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.
The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.
You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
Rest if you must, but never quit.
The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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