True success is one of the greatest needs. Success is not something you stumble onto or come to by accident. It is something you must sincerely prepare for. Take a good look at successes, and you'll see he same consistent qualities all the time - qualities of one's character that make one strive for a goal with a standard of unmatched excellence.

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it with beautiful clarity.

It's a fickle town, a tough town. They getcha, boy. They don't let you escape with minor scratches and bruises. They put scars on you here.

Home run hitters strike out a lot.

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

I am the best in baseball.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it