I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.

The only way I can't hit .300 is if there's something physically wrong with me.

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

I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits.

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

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

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

Don Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.

I don't smoke. Smoking will hurt you when you try to run out a triple.

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

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

When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.

Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

See the ball; hit the ball.

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

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

The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard.