I've Been On Teams That Lost A

I Think Hitting Is More A Mentality Than A Philosophy. A Philosophy Is Somebody Telling You The Way They Think It Should Be. Well, Different People Believe In Different Things. My Thing Is This: Be Ready To Hit.

You Fool Around With Different Pitches Playing Catch, But It's Not The Same When You've Got To Face Some Guy With A Bat In His Hand.

The Toughest Thing In Hitting Shouldn't Be Deciding When To Swing. It Is, For Me, Deciding When Not To Swing. You Should Be Swinging From The Time You Get Into The Batter's Box Until Something Says Don't Swing.

I've Always Favored Kids As A Player. If I Walked Out Of The Locker Room And There Were 100 People There And 50 Of Them Were Kids, I'd Sign The 50 Kids Before Anything Else.

I've Been On Teams That Lost A Hundred Games In A Season. I've Been On Teams That Had A Shot To Make The Playoffs And Fizzled Out At The End.