I Long For The Days When Athletes

Yes, Hard Is Good. When I Was In High School, I Spent A Lot Of Time On My Knees Playing With Balls. I Guess It Was Only Natural That I Became A Catcher.

I Was A Last Round Draft Pick. Nobody Wanted Me. I Could Count The Amount Of Scouts That Told Me To Go To School, To Forget Baseball.

You Can't Get Real Happy Or Real Depressed When You Play Baseball. Baseball Is A Great Sport In That It Offers A Player A Lot Of Opportunities For Atonement.

When He (roger Clemens) Threw The Bat (during Game 2 Of The 2000 World Series), I Basically Walked Out And Kept Asking Him What His Problem Was. He Really Had No Response. I Was Trying To Figure Out Whether It Was Intentional Or Not. I Was Going To Ask Him. If It Was, Then Obviously He Really No Had Response. I Was More Shocked And Confused Than Anything.

A Pitcher Never Gets Me Out. I Get Myself Out. That's No Disrespect To The Pitcher, But There Should Be No Excuse For Failure. You Can't Have An Excuse To Fail.