"By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it."
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"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth."
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"There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game."
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"You've got to be ready for the fastball."
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"A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime."
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"They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays."
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"Joe DiMaggio was the greatest all-around player I ever saw. His career can not be summed up in numbers and awards. It might sound corny, but he had a profound and lasting impact on the country."
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"No one can ever see the ball hit the bat because it's physically impossible to focus your eyes that way. However, when I hit the ball especially hard, I could smell the leather start to burn as it struck the wooden bat."
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"If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year!"
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"Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest."
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"Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders."
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"Baseball is 50% from the neck up"
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"I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen."
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"You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues."
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"There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived"
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"The Cleveland Cavaliers just offered me a full-time job and a house! A house! A house!"
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"I don't want to take anything away from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They're both great hitters, but they're batting against guys they never would have seen in previous years."
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"If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me."
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"I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400."
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"If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it."
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