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" See the ball; hit the ball. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" Umpires got power, man. You ever notice if you go to a ballpark and there's a close play on first base, they will not run the replay at the ballpark? I've seen umpires go underneath and call up and say if you run one more of those replays, we're gonna forfeit the game. That's how strong their union is. "

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

" With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions. "

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

" Some of my biggest friends are big-time horse owners. "

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

" Obama's a great speaker. Because of his speaking ability and his appearance, a lot of guys got on board. Being the first African American, a lot guys got on board. "

" I had an addiction to play baseball. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I bet on my team to win every night because I love my team; I believe in my team. I did everything in my power every night to win that game. "

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

" I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily. "

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

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" 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. "

" When you ask people about guys they didn't like because they were aggressive, there's me, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors; not too many names would come up. "

" I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement. "

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

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