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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.
The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night read more
The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me read more
All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.'
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.
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.
The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.
The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
