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Bill Lee
Athlete
About the author
Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us.
Bill Lee,
Athlete
#Time
#Years
#Managers
You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.
Bill Lee,
Athlete
#Right
#People
#Body
#Fact
When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.
Bill Lee,
Athlete
#State
#Mind
#Body
#Church
#Constitution
#Sports
The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.
Bill Lee,
Athlete
#Time
#Day
#Testing
The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.
Bill Lee,
Athlete
The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.
Bill Lee,
Athlete
#Self
People are too hung up on winning. I can get off on a really good helmet throw.
Bill Lee,
Athlete
#People
#Winning
You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.
Bill Lee,
Athlete
#Church
Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.
Bill Lee,
Athlete
#Kids
#Baseball
#Games
I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another.
Bill Lee,
Athlete
#Now
#Home
#Play
#Thought
I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
Bill Lee,
Athlete
#Policy
#World
#Baseball
#Society
#Rest
#Change
#Beer
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.
Bill Lee,
Athlete
#Now
#Will
#Years
#Earth
#Sun
#Space
#Theory
That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.
Bill Lee,
Athlete
#Baseball
#Money
#Mouse