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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I love WWE. "

" When people think of me, they think about me knocking catchers down and knocking second basemen down and yelling at pitchers. But when I took the spikes off after the game, I was a nice guy when I went home. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on baseball. "

" In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout. "

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

" Never bet on baseball. "

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

" I had an addiction to play baseball. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" A lot of these catchers don't understand that they are blocking the plate and they don't have the ball. You're not allowed to block the plate without the ball. "