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

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.

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.

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.

Concentration is the ability to not think about anything.

Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don't accept it.

Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.