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I was scared everyday I put on the uniform.
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.
I was three over. One over a house, one over a patio, and one over a swimming pool.
I'm a ballplayer. I know how hard the game is ... and anybody that makes it in the Hall of Fame, I support. They become a member of our special fraternity.
I never lifted a weight in my life. Why am I going to do steroids? That's not going to do me any good. We didn't have any weights in our clubhouse. We had one exercise bike and that was for the guy who tweaked his hamstring. And that thing didn't even work half the time.
I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.
Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.
Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.
If anyone stays away (after the 1981 strike), my response is this - those people had no right to ever come to the park, because they aren't true baseball fans.
American League teams don't bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot.
Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.'
I used to be a mad hitter. And then I learned the longer you wait out the ball, the better you see it. And the better you see it, the harder you hit it. And the harder you hit it, the higher your average is going to be. And the higher your average is, the more money you're going to make.
Do I want someone to get more hits than me? No. Do I want someone to hit more home runs than me? No. Do I want someone to have more RBI than me? No. I get a kick out of seeing the all-time leaders and my name's on top of every one, with the exception of strikeouts. I get a kick out of that.
I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.
If I was going to make one rule change, I would bring the DH in the National League.
If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors.
I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.
Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.
