Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?
— Pete Rose
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.
Any time you've got big teams winning, you've got big stars.
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.
Hillary Clinton wrote a book. She got paid. I don't understand why I can't.
Who cares if you bunt for a base hit?
I get accused of talking about records. But it's the guys who interview me who ask about them.
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.
No player or manager has greater respect for the umpires than I do, and I have demonstrated that over the years.
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.
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.
When somebody wants to interview me, I've always got something to say.
If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.
I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.
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.
Sometimes, when you don't have spark, someone in the dugout has to create something.
I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.
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.
Some of my biggest friends are big-time horse owners.
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.
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.
I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn't live anywhere else.
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.
You don't dominate any sport when you're over 40.
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.
My body is my best asset.
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.
There is no doubt that because I am a switch hitter I have one of the best offensive advantages that a hitter can have.
We were so poor when I was a kid that I had a sister who was stamped, 'Made In Japan.'
No matter how many times you say you're sorry, somebody is not going to hear you.
If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean.
If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.
There's other ways to make your head and muscles bigger than just steroids.
When guys do books or stories, all I like to see is the truth.
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.
I had an addiction to play baseball.
Your obligation as a base runner is to try and be safe within the rules. OK?
I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.
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 love WWE.
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 love the fans, I love the game of baseball, and I love Cincinnati baseball.
I'm built like my dad. Stocky, strong.
Since 1869, baseball has been doing pretty well.
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 know about winning batting titles.
I'm not going to go back to gambling; I mean, it's as simple as that.
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.'
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 look at the records, and you don't win the Cy Young seven times or the MVP without being a good player.
