Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.
It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
I was playing baseball, and I tripped over first base - I'm very clumsy - and I fell and broke my wrist. That was pretty painful.
Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.
There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.
I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.
I played baseball as a left-handed first baseman, though never as well as I did quarterbacking.
I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.
The fact is, when I was 15 and a sophomore at high school, I played on the varsity baseball team for the college.
In regards to steroids, I think we're all to blame, all of baseball. I never realized how far-reaching this problem has been.
When I came into baseball, I had one goal for my career - the Hall of Fame.
I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.
The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite.
For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.
The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark like the president walking in today, with bodyguards all around him.
I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.
