They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn't allow visitors in the clubhouse.
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Quotes tagged ‘Failure’
The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we…
They said I was such a great prospect that they were sending me to a winter league to sharpen up. When I stepped off the plane, I was in Greenland.
I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for $3,000. That bothered my dad at the time because he didn't have that kind of dough. But he eventually scraped it up.
Career highlights? I had two. I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax, and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.
I led the league in go get 'em next time.
When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.
I remember I’m batting against the Dodgers in Milwaukee. They led, 2-1 in the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two out, and the pitcher has a full count on me. I look over at the Dodgers dugout and they’re all in street clothes.
Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.
I had a good time every place I went as long as I didn’t play.
Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of.
In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the Bigs.
We never made it, did we?
If we had said 30 years ago that we were going to have only two incidents with casualties, we would have thought, 'Boy, that's great. To me, that indicates that the program has really exceeded what the early expectations were.
My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.
Just because two people don’t wind up spending their entire lives together doesn’t mean their relationship was a failure.
Just because two people don’t wind up spending their entire lives together doesn’t mean their relationship was a failure.
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Why didn’t it happen between us? Why did I fail? Why did you come close enough... and not closer?
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.