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.

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 owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

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

Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.

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 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.

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

Who cares if you bunt for a base hit?

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

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

Since 1869, baseball has been doing pretty well.

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

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

No matter how many times you say you're sorry, somebody is not going to hear you.

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.

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'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.

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

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

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.

I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.

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

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

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

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.

A team will take on its manager's personality. If it's a laid back manager, you'll have a laid back personality. The players will see that if it's OK for the Manager to be laid back, then you'll have a laid back team.

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

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

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.

I always liked the defensive part of baseball.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

My body is my best asset.

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'm built like my dad. Stocky, strong.

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.