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.

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

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.

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 can't remember, I wish I could remember the first time I bet on 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 always liked the defensive part of baseball.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.