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" I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn't live anywhere else. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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 played with 11 Hall of Famers and played against 52 Hall of Famers, and I don't know any of them linked to steroids. "

" When somebody wants to interview me, I've always got something to say. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone. "

" I had an addiction to play baseball. "

" 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. "

" We were so poor when I was a kid that I had a sister who was stamped, 'Made In Japan.' "

" Never bet on baseball. "

" It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "