“I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that's what I try to do.” PeopleTryingI CanPlayFunPiecesAreasBaseballHaving FunScream Author:Pedro Martinez
“I love what I do. I'm appreciative and I'm still competitive. I still love baseball, but it doesn't consume me. If I can't do it anymore, then I go home and do something else. It's not the end of the world. It's just the end of your career.” IfsWorldStillsI CanEndsHomeCareersBaseballEnd Of The WorldAppreciativeBaseball Love Author:Dontrelle Willis
“Baseball was just the avenue that the Lord used so I can provide for my family.” I CanUsedLordMy FamilyBaseballAvenues Author:Mariano Rivera
“I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.” WantYearsI CanPlayThreeFiveComfortableBaseballGuitarDivorceStrikesFive YearsGoing Through DivorceThree Strikes Author:Buddy Guy
“I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited mentality or family tradition to become a paleontologist. I can locate no tradition for scientific or intellectual careers anywhere on either side of my eastern European Jewish background. I view my serious and lifelong commitment to baseball in entirely the same manner: purely as a contingent circumstance of numerous, albeit not entirely capricious, accidents.” I CanSidesMy OwnViewsCareersSeriousCircumstancesMajorsIntellectualCommitmentTraditionBaseballAccidentsBackgroundsFortunateFeaturesMentalityEasternDestinedLifelongCapriciousOdysseyContingencyFamily Tradition Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates. I had a poor year, but even if I had hit .350, this would have been my last year. I was full of aches an pains and it had become a chore for me to play. When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.” IfsFeelsYearsHas BeensI CanPlayPainLastsGamesFunPoorStageProduceBaseballClubsManagersLast YearAcheTeammateChores Author:Joe DiMaggio
“I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw.” GivingKindI CanPlayKidsGamesBasketballBaseballBallsGive MeBounce Author:Terry Bradshaw