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I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.
No matter how many times you say you're sorry, somebody is not going to hear you.
The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.
I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn't live anywhere else.
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.
He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms.
Sometimes, when you don't have spark, someone in the dugout has to create something.
I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.
We were so poor when I was a kid that I had a sister who was stamped, 'Made In Japan.'
I don't think there's any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport.
I'd be willing to bet you, if I were a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.
I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits.
Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well.
Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?
Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.
I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.
I get accused of talking about records. But it's the guys who interview me who ask about them.
Jay Z got Cano a big raise, but he got him an extra 30-day vacation - and it's called October.
I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.
If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.
Don Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.
Day after day there are lots of fans here and it helps a lot with them out there rooting for us.
Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.
Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.
I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never.
What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball.
If you're not active - and I'm not active - and you don't watch what you eat, you can get big as a horse.
Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don't accept it.
There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.
No player or manager has greater respect for the umpires than I do, and I have demonstrated that over the years.
My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
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.
If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.
There is no doubt that because I am a switch hitter I have one of the best offensive advantages that a hitter can have.
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.
Pressure? Well it ain't hitting in forty-four straight games, because I done that and it was fun. The playoffs are pressure.
If I had been busted for drugs instead of gambling, I'd still be managing the Reds and baseball would be paying for my rehab.
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.
It doesn't take much to get me up for baseball. Once the National Anthem plays, I get chills. I even know the words to it now.
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 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.
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 think that the most important thing to me is fans. Without the viewers, without the fans, we have nothing. So I think the fans are awfully important.
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 always say, the only time you gotta worry about getting booed is when you're wearing a white uniform. And I've never been booed wearing a white uniform.
Every time I step up to the plate, I expect to get a hit. If I don't expect to get a hit, I have no right to step into the batter's box in the first place.
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.
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.
The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four straight years.
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.