It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.

Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.

I hope those players in Cuba will have a chance to compete in it. I hope politics don't get involved in this thing like it does everything else.

It took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits, but I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.