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.

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

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

You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.

Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready your lawyer lined up.

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