When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Three thousand hits is something that should stand for itself.
I used to get made fun of in the minor leagues. I'd be 0 for 2, and then in my last at-bat I'd hit a chopper that wouldn't even reach the shortstop, and I'd get a hit out of it. The guys would be all over me, but a hit's a hit. I'll take 3,000 of 'em.
You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.
Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life, generally.
I've been in eleven no-hitters you know.
Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes.
If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.
Your first hit in the majors - that's tops. It means you're on your way. When you get the first hit, then you can get the rest.
Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game.
When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.