Good mothers are underrated, just like good defense.

With the Cardinals everybody would be reading the business section to see what their stocks were doing. You get to this locker room (Pirates) in the morning and everybody is looking at the sports page to see if Hulk Hogan won.

We had an argument once, yeah. It was the best thing that could have happened to our working relationship. After that, we understood each other and got along much better. I always respected Barry Bonds, and I wanted to let him know that I did in a certain way.

The biggest adjustment from the minors was learning to spend $45 in meal money.

Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to follow.

Mario Lemieux is Mr. Pittsburgh.

They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.