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" 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. "

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" Sometimes, when you don't have spark, someone in the dugout has to create something. "

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

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

" I always liked the defensive part of 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame. "

" I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Who cares if you bunt for a base hit? "

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

" There is no doubt that because I am a switch hitter I have one of the best offensive advantages that a hitter can have. "

" I'm not going to go back to gambling; I mean, it's as simple as that. "

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

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

" 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. "

" You don't dominate any sport when you're over 40. "

" Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper. "

" See the ball; hit the ball. "