Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over read more

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics read more

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

Baseball is a game of inches.

Baseball is a game of inches.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.

Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy read more

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you too.

A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate who can see better than an umpire standing read more

A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate who can see better than an umpire standing five feet away.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where read more

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.