I made mistakes. I can’t whine about it. I’m the one that messed up and I’m paying the consequences. However, if I am given a second chance, I won’t need a third chance. And to be honest with you, I picked the wrong vice. I should have picked alcohol. I should have picked drugs or I should have picked up beating up my wife or girlfriend because if you do those three, you get a second chance. They haven’t given too many gamblers second chances in the world of baseball.

I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.

I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.

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.

I'd be willing to bet you, if I were a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.