Carl Yastrzemski

“I was a line drive hitter. I never tried to hit home runs.”

“The hardest thing to do in sports is to hit a round ball with a round bat squarely.”

“If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.”

“I've had a good life. I've had a good career. I'm happy.”

“The last thing I want to do is finish my career with a season like this. I want to go out with a bang.”

“I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.”

“You have to be a man to be a big leaguer, but you have to have a lot of little boy in you, too.”

“There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.”

“I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the box score the next day.”

“I enjoyed the game, and I love the game. I am going to miss it. The fans, the hot dogs, the beer, the players, the managers. I am going to miss it all.”