Everyday is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is. With a new game every day. And that's the way baseball is." author unknowned

"I became a better pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it" Sandy Koufax.

"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer" Ted Williams.

A Mizuno favorite- "Fans don't boo nobodies" Reggie Jackson.

Call me arrogant, cocky, crybaby, whiner or whatever names you like," but "At least they're not calling us losers anymore. Spurrier
 
"If you don't make a total committment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting the boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a person stands up and starts putting a life jacket on." Lou Holtz, Univ. of South Carolina Football Coach

If people like you too much, it,s probably becuase they're beating you. Steve Spurrier.

 There are three things the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else: build a fire, run a hotel, and manage a baseball team.....Rocky Bridges

 If you're not having fun in baseball, you miss the point of everything.....Chris Chambliss

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad youa re you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.
--Tommy Lasorda

"I told him I wasn't tired. He told me, 'No, but the outfielders sure are.'" - Texas Rangers pitcher Jim Kern on the manager who removed him from a game, 1979

"I'm working on a new pitch. It's called a strike." - Jim Kern "

The only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure." - Tommy Lasoda

"Throwing people out of a game is like learning to ride a bicycle--once you get the hang of it, it can be a lot of fun." - Ron Luciano, umpire

This is a simple game: you throw the ball, you hit the ball, you catch the ball. You got it.                                                     "Skip, from the movie Bull Durham" There is NO crying in baseball      "Tom Hanks" from the movie a league of there own

Steve Spurrier, Florida football coach, telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books: "But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet." (1991)

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." Babe Ruth

 Yogi Berra:  Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.