Occupation: Baseball Player Birth: December 30, 1935
I don't know if cortisone is good for you or not. But to take a shot every other ball game is more than I wanted to do and to walk around with a cons….
If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day..
A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher..
Pitching is the art of instilling fear..
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….
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it..
Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser..
People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball..
I don't think I've ever seen anybody with quicker hands than Soriano..
In the end it all comes down to talent. You can talk all you want about intangibles, I just don't know what that means. Talent makes winners, not int….
It's better to throw a theoretically poorer pitch whole-heartedly, than to throw the so-called right pitch with feeling of doubt-doubt that's it's r….
I think it's incredible because there were guys like (Willie) Mays and (Mickey) Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only….
The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I'll go for a strikeout. Bu….
I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body..
If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight..
The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the rev….
There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single….
I can't picture people talking about me 50 years from now..
He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another..