I've got a 15-year old son and a 10-year old daughter, and if they were going to do one of the following things: be an alcoholic; be a drug offender; beat their wife or husband; or gamble. I hope they would gamble.

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

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

Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well.

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.

I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.

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.