Pressure? Well it ain't hitting in forty-four straight games, because I done that and it was fun. The playoffs are pressure.

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.

Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well.

Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.

The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.

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.