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.
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You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
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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.
Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
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Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
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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.
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.
