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Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.

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.

I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has changed. You don't know who's trying to take advantage of you, what people really want.

There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.

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.

Scouts always think they're right. They're not right all the time. They don't even know how hard it is. Most of those scouts never played baseball.

All it takes to play baseball is a strong arm, good speed, and the coordination to hit the ball. That's it.

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.