If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you've got to go for speed.

The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me out at first.

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.