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

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.

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

Don Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.

If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab.

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

I told him (Pete Rose, Jr.) who to watch. I said if you want to be a catcher, watch Johnny Bench. If you want to be a right-handed power hitter, watch Mike Schmidt. If you just want to be a hitter, watch me.