When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than (Ty) Cobb.

If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.

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

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

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

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.