“If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.”

It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.

I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

I can’t concentrate when I’m thinking.

Failure is just another opportunity to start over.

Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.

I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.

Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can’t understand it. It’s too complicated. That’s what’s so simple about it.

I enjoy now doing what I do, playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.

Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.

I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better.

A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.

That’s too coincidental to be a coincidence.

Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.

If you can’t imitate him, don’t copy him.

When I knocked a guy down, there was no second part to the story.

You don’t have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he’s just this magnificent human being.

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.

Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.

You have to face reality some time. But there’s no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to.

I was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.

It doesn’t seem that long ago to me that the word ‘irreverent’ seemed affixed to my name. ‘Irreverent newcomer.’ I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye.