Don't come home a failure.
The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.
When I played ball, I didn't play for fun.
He (Shoeless Joe Jackson) was the finest natural hitter in the history of the game.
I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me, but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.
I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.