No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I was working a lot of hours, but it was pretty near tireless fun for me. I'd rather swing a bat than do anything else in the world.

I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.

Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.

There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived