Occupation: Baseball Player Birth: October 3, 1951
The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better..
These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready your lawyer lined up..
I'm just glad to get off three-hundred ninety-nine (career home runs). It sounds like something you'd purchase at a discount store..
The only players that are having fun are those having a good year, feasting on pitching or blowing down hitters and garnering all the adulation that ….
I've experienced a lot of things in baseball, but I've never been traded during a strike. At least I know I'll be in a new uniform the next time I pu….
The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provi….
I went to jail. I looked like one of those savings-and-loan guys leaving the jail house..
Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a poor family, faced defeat ….
I guess I'm the only guy old enough to figure him (Nolan Ryan, 1-Hitter Game in 1991) out..
Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient….
You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time..
Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year..
To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy..
You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life..
I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got..
People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't li….
All good balls to hit are strikes, though not all strikes are good balls to hit..
You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcom….
All though I didn't meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we all have to tip our hat to him. Because he made….
Good hitters don't just go up and swing. They always have a plan. Call it an educated deduction. You visualize. You're like a good negotiator. You kn….
I always enjoy watching Derek Jeter play because he is a model of consistency both in the field and at the plate. I finished my career with 3,110 hit….