The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence.
I told him I wasn't tired. He told me, no, but the outfielders sure are.
One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.
The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.
The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.
I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.
I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente.
What we're going to do is use spring training as sort of a feeling-out process for Phil and Preston and our other outfielders. It gives us a lot of comfort to know that you've got a pure center fielder like Preston. But he's also so athletic, he can come in and play either corner and we'll feel very comfortable with it.
You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass.
Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.
If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another.
You will only find the happiness you seek when you drop your negative attitude towards life, embrace life and be happy.
Sometimes we have to lose our way to find out what we really want, for we often ignore our needs until we are lost.
You are inferior to no one. others may treat you that way, but that is their problem. You are above all of this.
Listen to yourself, not the noise of the world. Only you know what is right for you.
Find something good within your life and give every ounce of positivity you have towards it, then watch how your life changes.
I remember one spring when I was doing the team's telecasts, Bob Allison was with me, and we were walking through the clubhouse in Orlando. This kid who was trying to make it with the Twins as an outfielder came up to me and asked who was that with me. I said that's Bob Allison, and you better hope you have as good a career as he had.
I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. (Babe) Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is to golf. He got the game moving. But I can't believe he could run as well as (Willie) Mays, and I can't believe he was any better an outfielder.
It took him 75 steps to get from third to home. I thought we were going to have to go out there and help him. A lot of players start thinking double then maybe wind up with a triple because the outfielder slips.
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