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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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I always liked the defensive part of baseball. "

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

" Never bet on baseball. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" If you screw up and do something, don't lie about it; come clean. "

" I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "