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" I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits. "

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" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" See the ball; hit the ball. "

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

" Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league. "

" I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with. "

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

" 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. "

" I like Barack Obama as a person. He's articulate, he knows sports, his brother-in-law's a coach. He always has the athletes to the White House. But I don't know about some of his policies and some of these people in Congress. "

" Your obligation as a base runner is to try and be safe within the rules. OK? "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more. "

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

" There is no doubt that because I am a switch hitter I have one of the best offensive advantages that a hitter can have. "

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

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

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

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