Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.
So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.
Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games--if you count exhibitions -- and I'm overpaid!
The catcher is in the middle of everything. He sees it best.
Well, you know, Pudge Rodriguez, obviously is as good as it gets.
They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games. My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.