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" I had an addiction to play baseball. "

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

" Never bet on baseball. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I never picked up my phone and called a bookmaker and bet on a baseball game from the clubhouse. Never. "

" 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 get accused of talking about records. But it's the guys who interview me who ask about them. "

" I love WWE. "

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

" They haven't given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball. "

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