Jackie Robinson Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League Baseball Player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish. There have been only two geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.
Every day 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. Bob Feller 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. No one can stop a home run. As the ball makes its high, long arc beyond the playing field, the diamond and the stands suddenly belong to one man.