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

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" 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. "

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" Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. You can pat 'em on the butt, you can kick 'em in the butt, or you can leave 'em alone.' "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

" Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I always liked the defensive part of baseball. "

" 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. "

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