“Not everybody will become a baseball star and not everybody will make the money I’m making.”

Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far … They don’t have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes.

I don’t have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.

I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn’t happen.

We spent a lot of money on some players.

I’m pretty much the one that goes to the mound.

The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.

There are a lot of people who know me who can’t understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.

That last one sounded kinda high to me.

To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.

I’d give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.