No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

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

I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.

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

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.

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.