Jim Kaat Quotations

When we flew in from a road trip, my son would be at the airport, and he would gravitate immediately to Earl. Earl just had that teddy bear quality about him.

On the flip side, he's going to make the guys toe the line and play the game the right way. It will be professionally run. There won't be anything left to chance. Joe will have everything covered.

He (Rodriguez) has been hearing it from the crowd.

You know what? If we had Johan Santana in Game 7, we would have won.

Yeah, I know those numbers. I like to take the game situation into account, too. I wouldn't care if he (Ortiz) was 10-for-20 (against Rivera), I want my best guy in there.

Earl just had that Teddy bear quality about him.

The one advantage the Yankees would have in bringing Mo in is this is Ortiz's first at-bat of the day.

When he took BP everybody would kind of stop what they were doing and watch.

My RV is the only place where I can find some peace and quiet.

A religious fanatic is somebody who knows Jesus Christ better than you do.

I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.

If you think too long, you think wrong.

Every ballpark used to be unique. Now, it's like women's breasts - if you've seen one, you've seen 'em both.

Every now and then they threw one where I was swinging.