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.

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.

If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.

Day after day there are lots of fans here and it helps a lot with them out there rooting for us.

The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.

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.

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