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

What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.

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

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.

When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than (Ty) Cobb.

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