He was my dad's favorite player. Here are some of his best quotes:
-Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
-Slump? I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting.
-How can you think and hit at the same time?
-We have deep depth.
-He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.
-I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five.
-In baseball, you don’t know nothing.
-I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
-Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
-I’m lucky. Usually you’re dead to get your own museum, but I’m still alive to see mine.
-If I didn’t make it in baseball, I won’t have made it workin’. I didn’t like to work.
-In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
-I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
-You can observe a lot by watching.
-I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.
-Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
