I Used To Lead Off

Individual Statistics, Plate Time And Everything Tend To Come, But The Most Enjoyment I Get Out Of Baseball Is Actually Winning.

You Fool Around With Different Pitches Playing Catch, But It's Not The Same When You've Got To Face Some Guy With A Bat In His Hand.

The Toughest Thing In Hitting Shouldn't Be Deciding When To Swing. It Is, For Me, Deciding When Not To Swing. You Should Be Swinging From The Time You Get Into The Batter's Box Until Something Says Don't Swing.

I've Been On Teams That Lost A Hundred Games In A Season. I've Been On Teams That Had A Shot To Make The Playoffs And Fizzled Out At The End.

When You Go To Other Parks, They Hang Banners For The Wild-card Or Eastern Division Or Western Division Champions. Around Here, They Don't Hang Anything Unless Its For Being World Champions.