A lot of long relievers are ashamed to tell their parents what they do. The only nice thing about it is that you get to wear a uniform like everbody else.

You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it.

For a hundred years, the owners screwed the players. For 25 years, the players have screwed the owners-they've got 75 years to go.

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

Lots of people look up to Billy Martin. That's because he just knocked them down.

We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.

Forget goals. Value the process.

You're only as smart as your ERA.

Life is so short. The only person you hurt when you stay angry or hold grudges is you. Forgive everyone, including yourself.

I never stopped loving you, Ronnie. And I never stopped thinking about you. Even if summers do come to an end.

Courage doesn’t defeat fear or erase fear or adjust to fear. Courage acts, plain and simple, in the midst of fear.

On a morning like this, fear is a blue sky emptied of birds.

It is only path bending. Don't let it be mind bending.

It's a wise person who knows the difference between free speech and cheap talk.

[Eva Braun] would also refer to [Adolf Hitler] as "the boss" (der Chef), but she never called him "Adolf" or "Adi" to anyone after the very early days. It was always der Führer.

Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.

In giving respect we can be very happy, because we can do it in all situations. When we expect respect we are miserable, because it is not that everyone in every situation will respect us.