Keith Hernandez

“The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four.”

“I've been to Gettysburg probably more than half a dozen times.”

“I love baseball.”

“Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.”

“They can't have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game.”

“My high school coach was a bit of a jerk.”

“I don't believe in playing just one sport. I believe it results in burnout, and each sport trains your body in a different way.”

“I like to write, and I try to be positive and optimistic.”

“You can always improve your bench and relief pitching.”

“The best class I ever took in high school was typing.”

“I'm pretty sure when I need a comma; I'm not so sure about a semicolon.”

“I am a human being. I have anxiety. I have doubts. And I'm not afraid to put it out there.”

“In New York, I have a photo of my parents on their wedding day in 1947. They're beaming at home plate in Houston's Buffalo Stadium. I love the photo because my dad is smiling. He didn't smile much in his later years.”

“I didn't cost the Series. I cost a game in the regular season.”

“I played football in the fall when I was in high school. Then basketball, a different conditioning - you're running up and down the courts. Then you come into baseball, you're doing a sprint to hit a triple.”

“I always performed out of fear of failure - and that's a tough way to play. It was as if my back was to the wall and I was constantly surrounded by very dangerous people that were not friendly to me.”

“Baseball began early for me. When I was 5, my father took two Little League bats and put them on a lathe. He whittled them down and sanded the bats so they were the proper size for my brother and me. He began by throwing tennis balls to us. Eventually, we practiced hitting and fielding at a field near our house.”

“My father was a San Francisco firefighter. He also was an amateur artist. Art ran deep on his side of the family, which originated in Spain. He painted our portraits. My mom, Jacqueline, was Scots-Irish. They met in 1947 when dad played for the Houston Buffalos, a minor league baseball team affiliated with the St. Louis Cardinals.”

“You never know what's going to happen the rest of the way. You can't predict. You don't know what Montreal is going to do to us this weekend, and you don't know what the Cubs are going to do to the Cardinals.”

“Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me feel very good.”