Bigs Quotes

All actors want to be athletes, and all athletes want to make movies. It`s a strange situation when I meet up with a baseball player -- one of my heroes -- and all he wants to talk about is movies and all I want to talk about is baseball. To this day I cannot accept the fact that baseball players are as interested in what I do as I am in what they do. So I`m making movies -- big deal! They`re playing major league baseball. That`s the ultimate. They`re in `The Show`. I know I`m in the entertainment business, but it`s not like facing Rob Dibble or Nolan Ryan, where you have to come through on the spot. If I screw up a line, well, I get as many takes as I need to nail the sucker. If it means 10 takes, fine. But if a hitter goes 1 for 10 it`s another story -- he`s only batting .100, and that`s not going to cut it in the bigs.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

I definitely see that out here in his coaching, ... He really stresses perfection out there for the bigs and for his point guards. Totally different style from what coach Skiles did. It`s two different coaches, so I`m just trying to get used to everything and just take it all in.