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.

I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.

I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.

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

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.

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

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