Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.

There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home. Every time you steal a base, you're taking a gamble on getting thrown out, and taking the bat out of the hitter's hand.

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants, that they cannot bend over to pick up ground balls. And they don't want to bend over in television games because in that way there is no way their face can get on the camera.

You can't go out to the mound, hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.

Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.

You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.