There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.

We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

The Chinese tell time by 'The Year of the Horse' or 'The Year of the Dragon.' I tell time by 'The Year of the Back' and 'The Year of the Elbow.' This year it's 'The Year of the Ulnar Nerve.' Someone once asked me if I had any physical incapacities of my own. 'Sure I do,' I said. 'One big one - Jim Palmer.'