Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.
Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship - and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.
You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
I need to eat a large meal before I play, and the one thing that was kind of consistent in every single clubhouse at least in the minors was a roast beef sandwich. So that kind of stuck there, and it just kind of stuck in the big leagues as well.
If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.
You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'
Just about every Latin American country has sent players to the big leagues, from the Dominican Republic to Costa Rica.
There are more second-, third-, fourth-, fifth- and so on in the big leagues than first-round picks.
I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything.
There were a lot of players who worked just as hard as I did, and if you didn't, you didn't stay in the big leagues.
Your first responsibility is to the organization, to teach and prepare players to get to the big leagues and have them ready when they get there, but everyone in the minors wants to be in the majors.
I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.
I thought eating Double Quarter Pounders with Big Mac sauce wasn't that bad, but I guess it was.
A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.
In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.
I once dated someone who worked at McDonald's. She came up and asked if I wanted a Big Mac.
'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola.
Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.
So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.
The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
