Every time I step up to the plate, I expect to get a hit. If I don't expect to get a hit, I have no right to step into the batter's box in the first place.

Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.

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

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

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

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.

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.