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?
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.
Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
I stare out the window and wait for spring.
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.
I really didn't say everything I said.
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
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 ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.
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.
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
We made too many wrong mistakes.
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
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.
Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
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