Keith Hernandez Quotations

You can always improve your bench and relief pitching.

You never know what's going to happen the rest of the way. You can't predict. You don't know what Montreal is going to do to us this weekend, and you don't know what the Cubs are going to do to the Cardinals.

Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me feel very good.

I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout.

Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.

I didn't cost the Series. I cost a game in the regular season.

The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four.

They can't have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game.

Look, (Looper) got his foot caught in the grass, ... His body wasn't squared toward second to make a proper throw.

Who is the girl in the dugout, with the long hair? What's going on here? You have got to be kidding me. Only player personnel in the dugout.

Who is the girl in the dugout, with the long hair?

I stand by those statements. I think this is a man's game and I feel very strongly about it. And if anybody thinks when I made that comment about women being in the kitchen, and takes it seriously, well, get a sense of humor.

The worst, best, most nerve-racking game I was ever involved in.

That's why you have all these young umpires with limited experience, ... (The young umpires) were called up to the big leagues too soon. Their lack of experience shows each and every game.

A lot of them are full of crap.

In my discussion I made a couple of inappropriate comments. If I have offended anybody I sincerely apologize.

I'm not surprised they're not on the list, because it sounds like it was done in a slipshod way ... It wasn't well known about Ted, but Reggie Jackson's background was well documented to people involved in the game.

I really think this town is ready to embrace this team like they did the one in '86. It's early, but if they keep this going, it's going to be a special season. New Yorkers know when guys are out there busting their butts and playing good baseball. They aren't guys looking to hit the three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth to get the headline.

He said the difference between a .300 hitter and a .280 hitter on a 600 at-bat season is only like 12 hits. So what Pete used to do was look in terms of every 100 at-bats . . . so you're not constantly thinking day-by-day. You can get caught up in your own statistics and get yourself in a lot of trouble. It's a long season.

You need to be locally relevant, globally consistent.