Joe Morgan Quotations

When you're a kid growing up, you say you want to make it to the Major Leagues, and when you reach that dream, that's what it's all about.

Make no mistake about it, we lost a generation of inner-city players along the way. I think that starting today, with the opening of the field here in Compton, we will stop the erosion of inner-city players.

Of course I noticed it. How could you not? But they're not the only ones. There are two or three teams that didn't have any African-American players this year.

No, I don't want you to draw any conclusion. I want you to listen to what I just said.

I don't believe in the Prophecy. I haven't read it, and I won't, because it's wrong. I know. I'm in the Hall of Fame.

I happen to agree with them. That group did want (Boston to win). But that doesn't mean everyone feels that way. I respect this team.

I take my vote as a salute to the little guy, the one who doesn't hit 500 home runs. I was one of the guys that did all they could to win. I'm proud of my stats, but I don't think I ever got on for.

My mother helped him with the recipes, and we all kind of worked together in his business. Tim had many friends, he was very honest and a lovable brother.

That suicide squeeze reminds me of the time that Mickey Mantle, Muhammad Ali, Secretariat and I had to buy an anniversary gift for President Nixon...

We have a few holes to fill, but with a little time together, we'll be fine.

We'll keep it here as long as we have to...to get it full.

We did almost everything we talked about doing at the start of the game. We knocked the ball around and created all sorts of chances. We just couldn't put anything away.

There's not place for them (hurricane survivors) to put a bed.

Teams draft mostly college players now, ... and a black kid from a poor family can't go to college unless he gets a scholarship. He can get one in basketball or football, but not in baseball.

A plate of spaghetti back then was $1.50, and it was very good food, that's why it lasted,

you would see more Willie Mays coming out of the inner city.

There's a perception among African-American kids that they're not welcome here, that baseball is not for inner-city kids. It's not true, and I hate that the perception is out there.

It's not just the home runs, but stamina, the way the game is played. Little things don't matter - speed, stealing bases.

I love to see the interaction between the members of the community and our celebrity golfers, ... Golf is such a humbling sport that it brings out the best in everyone.

I loved the Astrodome, ... It was unique. It was a forerunner for a lot of things you see.

I don't see myself as a Larry King or somebody. When you do interviews, sometimes it turns to interrogations. I'm more of a conversationalist, not throwing hardball questions.

What you have to do in certain situations, that's called situational hitting.

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I've been in earthquakes before.

I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team.

He (Frank Robinson as Manager) can step on your shoes, but he doesn't mess up your shine.

Greg Maddux could put a baseball through a life saver if you asked him.

To be a star and stay a star, I think you've got to have a certain air of arrogance about you, a cockiness, a swagger on the field that says, "I can do this and you can't stop me." I know that I play baseball with this air of arrogance, but I think it's lacking in a lot of guys who could have the potential to be stars.

To obtain success, you must get the most out of your ability and to do that you must work on your weaknesses.

A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter.

You can't win in the postseason unless you can manufacture runs.

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