Occupation: Baseball Player Birth: April 14, 1941
Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league..
If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you..
The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four stra….
The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses..
You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually..
I think that the most important thing to me is fans. Without the viewers, without the fans, we have nothing. So I think the fans are awfully importan….
The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant..
I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame..
I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball..
Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal..
You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back..
I told him (Pete Rose, Jr.) who to watch. I said if you want to be a catcher, watch Johnny Bench. If you want to be a right-handed power hitter, watc….
I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for r….
The only way I can't hit .300 is if there's something physically wrong with me..
I always say, the only time you gotta worry about getting booed is when you're wearing a white uniform. And I've never been booed wearing a white uni….
The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard..
People say I don't have great tools. They say that I can't throw like Ellis Valentine or run like Tim Raines or hit with power like Mike Schmidt. Who….
I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits..
I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits..
My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more..