It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.
Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.
Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me.
That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.