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

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

I know about winning batting titles.

I bet on baseball in 1987 and 1988.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I had an addiction to play baseball.

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

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.

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

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.

My body is my best asset.

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

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

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

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

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