It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

I was doing what I love to do: play baseball. Not going to complain about that.

Ballplayers, like everyone else, like to get told they did something right.

Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.

I could run like a gazelle, couldn't I?

I loved coming up with players in scoring position and I had to drive them in.

I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.

He leaned down to her ear and purred. Damn but she loved when he purred.

I don't get to shoot anybody. That kind of sucks.

Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

It is very difficult to spend "federal (the taxpayers') dollars" so that the intended result is achieved.

You can always tell you're in trouble when the good option involves a prosthetic leg.

The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by the civilian populace.

I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.

We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death.

Avoid the trap of looking back unless it is to glorify God for what He has done.