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" I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing. "
Competition
Think
Me
" If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager. "
Back
Baseball
Interest
" If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged. "
You
Time
Successful
" I had a job on college campus. I lost that job, but on my way home I heard an inner voice that said go out for the baseball team. I was a walk-on, and I was actually petrified as a walk-on because you're not an athlete. "
College
Baseball
Team
" I was not in the church, but we claim, like so many people, 'Yeah, I grew up in the church.' Well yeah, I grew up in the church and went to church, but I knew nothing about the Lord. I had no idea what it meant about walking in faith. "
Faith
Walking
People
" Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive. "
Heard
Alive
Game
" Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time. "
Time
You
Bad
" Some players tell me that since retiring they've had the urge to go somewhere every three days. To satisfy that urge, they may even jump in the car and drive around the block. "
Me
Three
Jump
" Stealing bases was put to me almost as a prerequisite for staying in the game. They didn't give me a handbook on how to do it; they said do it. Under those conditions you go out and develop your own handbook. "
Me
Said
Game
" The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered. "
Fantasy
Offered
Life
" There is a definite loneliness in the game. Most people stay away from you since they think they're intruding upon your time. And after the ball game, when it's 11 o'clock and you want to eat dinner some place, the restaurants are closed. "
Dinner
Loneliness
People
" The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent. "
Penalty
Message
Greater
" They will look at my career as the guy who gave it all but at the same time did it with integrity. That's what we all aim for - the respect of the game as well as the honesty that's played a part of that game. "
Respect
Honesty
Integrity
" We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat. "
Move
Position
Attention
" When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed. "
Bed
Kid
Problem
" You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it. "
Baseball
You
Game
" You can't hide God in you. God was not meant to become part of you, and you hide out in the closet. I don't think He wanted that. I think He wanted people to see the Christ in you that reflects Him. "
You
God
Hide
" Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect. "
Go
Battle
You
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