The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

In baseball, there is something electrifying about the big leagues. I had read so much about Stan Musial, Ted Williams and Jackie Robinson. I had put those guys on a pedestal. They were something special. I really thought they put their pants on different, rather than one leg at a time.

Failure is part of success.

Consistency is what counts; you have to be able to do things over and over again.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

There is no logical reason why girls shouldn't play baseball. It's not all that tough.