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" I don't think there's any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport. "

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" See the ball; hit the ball. "

" 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. "

" I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Never bet on baseball. "

" 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. "

" I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball. "

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

" I had an addiction to play baseball. "

" If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third. "

" I know about winning batting titles. "

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

" The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually. "

" My body is my best asset. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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'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. "

" No player or manager has greater respect for the umpires than I do, and I have demonstrated that over the years. "

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