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.

What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.

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

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

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.

Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

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.