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.

If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.

See the ball; hit the ball.

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.

There's other ways to make your head and muscles bigger than just steroids.

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.

I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.

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.'

Obama's a great speaker. Because of his speaking ability and his appearance, a lot of guys got on board. Being the first African American, a lot guys got on board.

I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a general. George Bush senior. I haven't met Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, although I got a letter from him.

Never bet on baseball.

There is no doubt that because I am a switch hitter I have one of the best offensive advantages that a hitter can have.

Sometimes, when you don't have spark, someone in the dugout has to create something.

Willie Mays could throw better, and Hank Aaron could hit more home runs. But I've got enthusiasm. I've got desire. I've got hustle. Those are God-given talents, too.

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

I get accused of talking about records. But it's the guys who interview me who ask about them.

Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.

In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.

I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team... that's throwing the game.

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

Who cares if you bunt for a base hit?

I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.

I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.

We were so poor when I was a kid that I had a sister who was stamped, 'Made In Japan.'

Since 1869, baseball has been doing pretty well.

I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn't live anywhere else.

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.

No matter how many times you say you're sorry, somebody is not going to hear you.

The game of baseball is better when the Dodgers are playing well, just like when the Yankees are playing well, or the Cubs, the Phillies, the big-name teams.

When you ask people about guys they didn't like because they were aggressive, there's me, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors; not too many names would come up.

I'm not going to go back to gambling; I mean, it's as simple as that.

I look at the records, and you don't win the Cy Young seven times or the MVP without being a good player.

You don't dominate any sport when you're over 40.

I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.

I actually went to some Gamblers Anonymous classes, and I sat there for three or four of them, and I'm trying to figure out what I have in similarities with these other people, and I could never find anything. It just seems like it wasn't the right place for me.

I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.

When somebody wants to interview me, I've always got something to say.

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.

No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.

A team will take on its manager's personality. If it's a laid back manager, you'll have a laid back personality. The players will see that if it's OK for the Manager to be laid back, then you'll have a laid back team.

I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.

Your obligation as a base runner is to try and be safe within the rules. OK?

I am grateful that I live in a nation where most believe that one's punishment should fit their wrongdoing and that ours is a nation that judges an individual by both what he has done and how he has changed.

I like Barack Obama as a person. He's articulate, he knows sports, his brother-in-law's a coach. He always has the athletes to the White House. But I don't know about some of his policies and some of these people in Congress.