You never know what's going to happen. Anything can happen there... and often does.

I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.

And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.

The race doesn't always belong to the swift nor the battle to the strong. It belongs rather to those who run the race, who stay the course and who fight the good fight.

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.