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Didn’t come up here to read. Came up here to hit.

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I’m not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else’s job. I just can’t think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

I’ve been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I’ve got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.