And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

I'm just glad to get off three-hundred ninety-nine (career home runs). It sounds like something you'd purchase at a discount store.

The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

I went to jail. I looked like one of those savings-and-loan guys leaving the jail house.

All good balls to hit are strikes, though not all strikes are good balls to hit.