When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.

I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper.

If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab.

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.

Among many U. S. wine consumers, California holds a strong position.