Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
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Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'
I came up under the wing of Larry Bowa, and one thing I did not do was ever take a day off from taking pregame groundballs or batting practice. Then the games were just having fun.
Every time I step on the field, I step on the field to make plays.
In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.
You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.
It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run.
If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball.
One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.