Pastoral Resources

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.

I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.

When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.

Baseball is just my job.

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

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

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.

Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning.