It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

I love baseball and I don't want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it.

I've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.

I've always felt, it's a gift of God, whatever I have, whatever has made me do what I do for as long as I do it. But I know I can lose that in one second. A stroke. Whatever. One second. Blow the whole thing. So, when you do think about that, you realize how fortunate and how blessed you've been, and that's really how I feel.

I have to go over my carefully prepared ad-libs.

Some people die twice: once when they retire, and again when they actually pass away. Fear of the first one is a big incentive for me to keep working.