I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.
See the ball; hit the ball.
There's other ways to make your head and muscles bigger than just steroids.
If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.
My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. You can pat 'em on the butt, you can kick 'em in the butt, or you can leave 'em alone.'
The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.
I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.
Umpires got power, man. You ever notice if you go to a ballpark and there's a close play on first base, they will not run the replay at the ballpark? I've seen umpires go underneath and call up and say if you run one more of those replays, we're gonna forfeit the game. That's how strong their union is.
Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper.
If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean.
Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.
When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.
Never bet on baseball.
I look at the records, and you don't win the Cy Young seven times or the MVP without being a good player.
Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?
My body is my best asset.
I know everything about Ty Cobb except the size of his hat.
