Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.

I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.

I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park.

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.

I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.