Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.
I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.
I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.
I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.
Any hand can condem, but it takes a helping hand to build.
I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again.
They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.
There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it.
Tony La Russa was quoted as saying that I was using steroids back then, and I was talking about it in the clubhouse, openly.
My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.
I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.
I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.
I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.
I played with 11 Hall of Famers and played against 52 Hall of Famers, and I don't know any of them linked to steroids.
If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.
