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

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

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

Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

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'.

I can only guess that, for guys in their 30s and 40s who watched me play, they understood that the score never mattered and my paycheck never mattered (in relation) to how I played. I played with Little League enthusiasm and professional flair. That's what fans are really looking for.

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.