I've Only Read Two Books

My Father Cared A Lot About Me, But He Never Gave Me The Satisfaction Of Really Knowing It. Hitting .390 Wasn't Enough For Him. Nothing Seemed To Be. He Was Not Trying To Be Mean. He Was Just Seeing To It That I Never Got Self-satisfied, That I Worked Hard To Get The Most Out Of What I Had.

American League Teams Don't Bunt Very Often. National League Teams Bunt A Lot.

Every Time I Sit With Our General Manager At A Baseball Game, And There's Number-cruncher And Statistician Guy - I'm Sitting Around - They Start Talking About Stuff, And I Say, 'what's That? I've Never Heard Of That One Before.

He Said I Couldn't Do (off The Field) What I Did When I Was 23 Or 24, And I Paid Attention To Him. Damn It, I Got A Trainer And Went To Spring Training In The Best Shape Of My Career And In 1985 Had The Best Season I Ever Had And We Won The World Series. Before That, I Didn't Know How Long I Was Going To Play. That Talk With Mr. Fogelman Was The Most Inspiring Talk I Ever Had With Anyone.

I Used To Be A Mad Hitter. And Then I Learned The Longer You Wait Out The Ball, The Better You See It. And The Better You See It, The Harder You Hit It. And The Harder You Hit It, The Higher Your Average Is Going To Be. And The Higher Your Average Is, The More Money You're Going To Make.