 I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience. |
| People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can. |
| I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself. |
| I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work. |
| Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life. |
| Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them. |
| Never had I had so many friends and so much fun as I did in the projects. |
| Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child. |
| I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh. |
| We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed. |
| I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop. |
| Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God. |
| I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium. |
| Life is one big transition. |
| I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it. |
| I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause. |
| To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed. |
| I've always been a slave to my heart. |
| When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played. |
| Never was I booed. |
