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We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.

We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers.

What a great hitch to pit!

What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.

What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better.

Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.

Whatever we do, make sure we clean up baseball.

What happens is that all your life you operated businesses in such a way that you could one day afford to buy a baseball team. And then you buy the team and forget all the business practices that enabled you to buy it.

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just playground marbles, their business deals no more than baseball-card trades, their wars only games of guns in the park? What if they were all still snotty-nosed kids inside their suits and dresses? Christ, that couldn't be, could it? It was too horrible to think about.

What I like best about baseball is the continuity. Generation after generation can follow the game and get the same satisfactions year after year and bring to it the same interest and spirit. I want to take that with me into the next century.

What I got out of baseball is what I have today, and I've got to look at that. I still see some of my friends that never made it past Triple-A. I made that last big step. I was lucky. I'm in love with my land. I got it all from playing ball. It gives me prestige. Someone says, 'What you got?' I say, 'One hundred and twenty-one acres of nice land.'

What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

What is the difference between astroturf and grass? I don't know, I never smoked astroturf.

What is the top requirement for a second baseman? A fine shortstop. I am fortunate in having the greatest shortstop in baseball, Luis Aparicio.

What makes a good man?

What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.

What's cool about baseball is you don't have to see someone for years, but when you see them, you just hustle up and give them a big hug. Those friendships endure.

What's odd is that nobody in my family is an artist. My cousins are like secretaries at law firms or nurses or just more blue collar. And I was in a baseball team. I used to be like a really big tomboy.

What's the use of saying we're better at baseball than this country? We all play together. I'm playing with Venezuelans and Dominicans right now. We all play together, so what's up with saying our country is better than your country? It's stupid. I don't like it.

What the hell has (Herbert) Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did.

What Time Is It? You Mean Now?

What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.

What they were doing was extremely wrong as far as I was concerned, and to this day, I don't know what I was thinking except bowl them over.

What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.

Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors. That was a lot of Wheaties. I think there were twenty-four boxes in a case and some of these guys were hitting twenty-five and thirty home runs a season. We had a dog in those days named Blue Grass and the players used to give us their Wheaties for him. Blue Grass loved Wheaties and so did I.

What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

When a professional baseball team asks you to throw out the first pitch, that's an honor, and you do it.

When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.

When Guante started, they thought he'd be like popcorn, one of the most popular things around.

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

Whenever you get an inflamed tendon, you've got a problem. OK, here's the next pitch to Gene Tendon.

When he hit it, I knew that it was my ball. But I had to catch it and it seemed like the hardest catch of my life. I said to myself, 'Two hands, just like your dad taught you.'

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

When I broke my arm, I knew there was something a lot bigger than baseball (about to happen) ... I had a sense that God had something for me, something bigger than baseball.

When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there.

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

When I first signed with the Yankees, the regulars wouldn't talk to you until you were with the team three or four years. Nowadays the rookies get $100,000 to sign and they don't talk to the regulars.

When I find the motherfucker who tortured an innocent cat to death just to send us a warning, I'm going to clobber him with a baseball bat

When I got out of baseball, I got all the way out. I might watch a World Series game or something.

When I get on the field, it's just going to be another game, You get out there and it's just baseball.

When I grew up in Flatbush, 'we played football, stickball and baseball all the time, right out there on the city streets. Football was my favorite.

When I knocked a guy down, there was no second part to the story.

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.