You've got to be ready for the fastball.

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

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

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

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.

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.