Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don't accept it.

I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.

I played with 11 Hall of Famers and played against 52 Hall of Famers, and I don't know any of them linked to steroids.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

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

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

It's easy to practice something that you are good at, and that is what most people do. Wat's tough is to go ot and to work hard on the things that you don't do very well.