Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.
You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.
When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?
One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?
The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.
It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.
I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy.
While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.
You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.
Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning.
I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.
I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.