Pittsburgh isn't fancy, but it is real. It's a working town and money doesn't come easy. I feel as much a part of this city as the cobblestone streets and the steel mills, people in this town expect an honest day's work, and I've it to them for a long, long time.

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

Don't be sharp or flat; just be natural.

Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.