The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played.

I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.

The fourth major league game I ever saw in person, I was in uniform

I got into pro ball at 18 and played until I was almost 39, non-stop.

If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.

When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?

I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and players like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton and Manny Trillo.