I Used To Lead Off

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.

I've Always Favored Kids As A Player. If I Walked Out Of The Locker Room And There Were 100 People There And 50 Of Them Were Kids, I'd Sign The 50 Kids Before Anything Else.

Individual Statistics, Plate Time And Everything Tend To Come, But The Most Enjoyment I Get Out Of Baseball Is Actually Winning.

Professionalism Is Not Sportsmanship. If You Don't Succeed, You Won't Be In Your Profession For Long. In Our Society, It's Not About Good Or Bad. It's About Who's On Top.

I Think Hitting Is More A Mentality Than A Philosophy. A Philosophy Is Somebody Telling You The Way They Think It Should Be. Well, Different People Believe In Different Things. My Thing Is This: Be Ready To Hit.