They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games. My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.

A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.

I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming.

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

The catcher is in the middle of everything. He sees it best.

I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living.

There are too many false things in the world, and I don't want to be a part of them. If you say what you think, you're called cocky or conceited. But if you have an objective in life, you shouldn't be afraid to stand up and say it. In the second grade, they asked us what we wanted to be. I said I wanted to be a ball player and they laughed. In the eighth grade, they asked the same question, and I said a ball player and they laughed a little more. By the eleventh grade, no one was laughing.