I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.
A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.
Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don't accept it.
If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean.
When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.
If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.