Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.

Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.

I can't stand satisfaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection.

If you're associated with the Philadelphia media or town, you look for negatives. I don't know if there's something about their upbringing or they have too many hoagies, or too much cream cheese.

Pete Rose is the most likable arrogant person I've ever met.

You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.

I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year.

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.

It isn't that hard to get RBI's when you're hitting home runs, you generally get a least one.

A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.

Grace is root of a good life.

Don't make a bridge which divides you with everyone by your own assumptions ....."As distance always doesn't ensure solutions

I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar.

By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment for it.

Keep the warmth of the sun in your heart.

It took me some time to join the various streams of making music that was technically good and making music that made me feel good.