“Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of different positions.”

Most teams today don’t take outfield practice.

I can’t take another day of this.

One reason outfielders don’t have stronger arms might be they don’t practice as much as we did.

The most relaxing thing i do, hang halfway out a 3rd floor window, and look at rocks if i fall out.

This time you’ve dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with.

I’ll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life.

I was very, very shocked about Cooperstown.

I see the other players dressing different every day. I’ve got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I’m really embarrassed.

Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.

I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn’t know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time.

I thought my chances were fairly good, but I tried to stay low key about it, not too high and not too low. That was the way I played, too.

Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now – basketball, football, soccer – for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.

You’ve got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you’re able to complete it and do it the right way.

He signed as a shortstop. He could play the outfield, of course, and third base and first, too. He was a tremendous athlete. Mickey Mantle was unbelievable, too.

Well maybe i’ll fall hard, something tough to break me, something sharp to rip into my insides and bleed out all that pain.

All of a sudden I’m in the major leagues and we’re traveling from town to town.

All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.

While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.

No man beholds his mother’s womb Yet who denies it’s there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.

Once Michael gets up there he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.’ Then all of a sudden, he says, ‘Well, maybe I’ll 360.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

I found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.