The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.
All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
If there was no intentional walks, the guy would just walk him anyway, unintentionally intentionally walk him. You see a lot more of that than what meets the eye.
I'm a ballplayer. I know how hard the game is... and anybody that makes it in the Hall of Fame, I support. They become a member of our special fraternity.
I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.
I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.
For me, I tend to sit back sometimes and just count my blessings because of how long I've played.
Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.
I think the Pistons have such a well rounded team, which is why they're so successful. All you have to do is look at the stats defensively and at their rebounding and scoring.
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 had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.
There is one thing I can say about working in a steel mill. If it does not kill you, it will make a man out of you.
I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.
I want to win as much as anybody. But what am I supposed to do? Go cry in my apartment for the next two weeks?
The flying? I'm not worried about it. I'm safe up there. I feel very comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane.
I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.
When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?'
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.
