I always liked the defensive part of baseball.

Baseball and the players association have rules. If you stay within the rules - which say that you can play while you're appealing - I don't see what anyone would be in arms about.

I can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball.

Are you tall? Are you strong? How big are your hands? You must be honest with yourself or you will end up using the wrong bat.

Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of baseball, only got over 50%. Johnny Bench is the best catcher in the history of baseball, but Piazza has all the record for catchers as far as offensively.

Some of my biggest friends are big-time horse owners.

When people think of me, they think about me knocking catchers down and knocking second basemen down and yelling at pitchers. But when I took the spikes off after the game, I was a nice guy when I went home.

I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.

I know everything about Ty Cobb except the size of his hat.

I love the fans, I love the game of baseball, and I love Cincinnati baseball.

The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.

I bet on my team to win every night because I love my team; I believe in my team. I did everything in my power every night to win that game.

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.

My body is my best asset.

When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb.

I'm built like my dad. Stocky, strong.

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.

If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean.

I had an addiction to play baseball.

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.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?

I don't think there's any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport.

A lot of these catchers don't understand that they are blocking the plate and they don't have the ball. You're not allowed to block the plate without the ball.

Back in 1960 at Christmas time, I did work loading and unloading boxcars for Railway Express. That was a kind of weight training that helped me. I weighed about 160 when I started. I began to gain weight and kept right on gaining until I reached 195 pounds.

I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.

Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.

I bet on baseball in 1987 and 1988.

I know about winning batting titles.

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.

They haven't given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball.

When guys do books or stories, all I like to see is the truth.

If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.

I played with 11 Hall of Famers and played against 52 Hall of Famers, and I don't know any of them linked to steroids.

No player or manager has greater respect for the umpires than I do, and I have demonstrated that over the years.

I love WWE.

Hillary Clinton wrote a book. She got paid. I don't understand why I can't.

Any time you've got big teams winning, you've got big stars.