If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

---

Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, ‘You’re never going to make it.’ I appreciated their honesty because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation. -Mike Piazza

---

Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

---

Sports do not build character. They reveal it. — Heywood Broun

---

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something -Nolan Ryan

---

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. -Albert Pujols

---

If you don't play to win, why keep score?

---

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

---

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball. -Pete Rose

---

A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.. - Joe Torre

---