If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

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

Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect

I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to.

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

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