In honor of our last regular season game of 2007

Sandy Koufax: "Pitching is the art of instilling fear."

Ty Cobb: "When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea,
and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that
implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest."

Yogi Berra: "Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hitting."

Ted Williams: "There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate
and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher."

Satchel Paige: "Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw
strikes. Home plate don't move."

Yogi Berra: "I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the
bat, and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my
fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?"

Yogi Berra: "Ninety percent of this game is mental, and the other half is
physical."

Papi: "It doesn't matter if we we're down 3-0. You've just got to keep the
faith. The game is not over until the last out."