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

I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game.

No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.

I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn't live anywhere else.

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

I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.

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.