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

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

" 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. "

" Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball. "

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

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

" There's other ways to make your head and muscles bigger than just 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. "

" Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league. "

" 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. "

" Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Never bet on baseball. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" My body is my best asset. "

" 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. "

" I love the fans, I love the game of baseball, and I love Cincinnati baseball. "

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