If everyone were like him (Mitch Williams) I wouldn't play. I'd find a safer way to make a living.

I have an Alka-Seltzer bat. You know-plop, plop, fizz, fizz, when the pitcher sees me walking up there he says, 'Oh, what a relief it is'.

Mario Lemieux is Mr. Pittsburgh.

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

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.

I don't care what you do - baseball or politics - George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years - Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids.