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They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win read more
They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ballgames.
Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair read more
Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.
It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf read more
It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as read more
When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off read more
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
When I played ball, I didn't play for fun... It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's read more
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.
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
