Practice the game the way you're going to play the game. Practice hard and play hard. Run hard and above all else, hustle every moment you're on the field where you are practicing or playing in a game.

I think that the most important thing to me is fans. Without the viewers, without the fans, we have nothing. So I think the fans are awfully important.

I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.

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

I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.

Pressure? Well it ain't hitting in forty-four straight games, because I done that and it was fun. The playoffs are pressure.