“That’s why I’ve gotten so much experience at my age.”

You pick up little things here and there.

Once I get comfortable and feel a part of what I’m doing.

For the most part, when my home runs come, they come in bunches.

You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I’m not playing, I’m watching baseball.

I’ve always been a streaky hitter.

I’ve always hit.

What cracks me up is people who think I don’t take baseball seriously. It’s the most important thing in my life. They don’t know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can’t, but I’m getting better.

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don’t go to games.

A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn’t the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn’t going to say every day,

It’s hard not to be romantic about baseball

I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar.

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.