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

What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

I told him (Pete Rose, Jr.) who to watch. I said if you want to be a catcher, watch Johnny Bench. If you want to be a right-handed power hitter, watch Mike Schmidt. If you just want to be a hitter, watch me.

I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than (Ty) Cobb.

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.