I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

I haven't missed a game in two-and-a-half years. I go to the park as sick as a dog and, when I see my uniform hanging there, I get well right now. Then I see some of you guys (media) and I get sick again.

Day after day there are lots of fans here and it helps a lot with them out there rooting for us.

I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block - lifetime ban. Death penalty. I spent my entire life on the baseball fields of America, and I was not going to give up my profession without first seeing some hard evidence ... right or wrong, the punishment didn't fit the crime, so I denied the crime.