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

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.

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

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.

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.

Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand.

Do you know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

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