Get eight hours of sleep regularly. Keep your weight down, run a mile a day.

It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to the plate, I could hear the fans say, 'Here comes that man again. Here comes that man.'

What made me sign with the Cardinals? Because they used salesmanship, the personal touch.

Unless you give it all you've got, there isn't any sense in playing.

What I try to do is never to hurt anybody else and figure if I don't, then I'm not likely to get hurt myself.

I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider; then, I'd pick up the speed of the ball in the first thirty feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it had crossed the plate.

Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.