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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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" Since 1869, baseball has been doing pretty well. "

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

" 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. "

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

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