When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.

You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.

The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.