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He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.
I don't think I've ever seen anybody with quicker hands than Soriano.
Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.
The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I'll go for a strikeout. But most of the time I try to throw to spots. I try to get them to pop up or ground out. On a strikeout I might have to throw five or six pitches, sometimes more if there are foul-offs. That tires me. So I just try to get outs. That's what counts - outs. You win with outs, not strikeouts.
If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.
I can't picture people talking about me 50 years from now.
I think it's incredible because there were guys like Mays and Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years ... I only had four or five good years.
I don't know if cortisone is good for you or not. But to take a shot every other ball game is more than I wanted to do and to walk around with a constant upset stomach because of the pills and to be high half the time during a ball game because you're taking painkillers, I don't want to have to do that.
A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.
People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.
I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. (Babe) Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is to golf. He got the game moving. But I can't believe he could run as well as (Willie) Mays, and I can't believe he was any better an outfielder.
There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.
