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

It hurt me a great deal. It put a lot of pressure on me because I was at a young age and the writers around here and throughout the league starting comparing me to Cobb. It put a lot of pressure on me.

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.

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.

The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.

[H]istory is seen in a rear-view mirror while the future is the dark, foggy road ahead, filled with unknown trouble.

You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.

Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.

You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.

Go ahead, take out your dong.’ ‘I’m not taking out my dong. And by the way, who uses the word dong?