I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don't remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don't remember the number of my locker in school. But I remember that Boy Scout code.

He (Darryl Strawberry) is not a dog; a dog is loyal and runs after balls.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

Bruce Benedict is so slow he'd finish third in a race with a pregnant woman.

When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: “Don’t you feel pressure on you?” I said: “Want to know something, I’m worried about the guy who’s going to have to replace me.”

I walk into the clubhouse today and it's like walking into the Mayo Clinic. We have four doctors, three therapists and five trainers. Back when I broke in, we had one trainer who carried a bottle of rubbing alcohol, and by the 7th inning he'd already drunk it.

I didn't even graduate from high school. I've never told anybody that before. I got my degree later, when I was in the army.