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.

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.

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.

When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.

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

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

Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible.