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.
Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.
Fans don't boo nobodies.
I'm the straw that stirs the drink.
The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.
People think I hate Billy Martin. I don't. I hate some of the things he did. And I will say I don't understand him. Billy Martin is not an intellectual, but there is a cunningness to him that is something to behold.