A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
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To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.
You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.
Too much money at a young age, it just takes your eye off the ball. And you're not as hungry as players used to be. You think you've made it before you've done anything.
The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
Every kid in America dreams of playing in the big leagues and they don't, just because. It's not because they blew out their knee. It's just because they didn't make it.
I think there are some players born to play ball.
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
Small players learn to be intuitive, to anticipate, to protect the ball. A guy who weighs 90 kilos doesn't move like one who weighs 60. In the playground I always played against much bigger kids and I always wanted the ball. Without it, I feel lost.
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