The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
I was born to play baseball.
I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.
Baseball has been very good to me.
Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball.
Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.
The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.
I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.
I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.
Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.