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

If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.

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.

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.

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

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