To win.
Nothing else matters,
and nothing else will do.
Sanford “Sandy” Koufax
February is always
a bad month for TV sports.
Football is gone,
basketball is plodding along
in the annual mid season doldrums,
and baseball is not even mentioned.
Hunter Stockton Thompson
Playing baseball
for a living is
like having
a license to steal.
Pete Rose
fielder, and manager)
Baseball,
it is said,
is only a game.
True.
And the Grand Canyon
is only a hole in Arizona.
George Frederick Will
Some days
you tame the tiger,
and some days
the tiger has you for lunch.
Tug McGraw
The sun doesn’t shine
on the same dog’s ass
all the time.
James Augustus “Catfish” Hunter
Fans don’t boo no-bodies.
Reggie Jackson
I throw the ball
ninety-two miles an hour,
but they hit it back
just as hard.
Joaquín Andújar
right-handed starting pitcher)
Everybody
kind of perceives me
as being angry.
It’s not anger,
it’s motivation.
William Roger Clemens
One of the beautiful things
about baseball
is the history.
James Anthony Abbott
