When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.
Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don`t look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don`t back up their beards.
When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes.
It`s a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.
I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it`s over.
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he`s timid.
If they knocked two of your guys down, I`d get four. You have to protect your hitters.
A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it`s all over baby.
My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.