As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because... you either loved them or you hated them.
It's my job that if somebody wants to have a discussion about something, I'm certainly sensitive to that, and I'm willing to do it.
The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing.
When you take a job, you don't just accept the pats on the back. You have to accept the kicks in the pants.
Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.
I'm more of a feel pitcher. If something's wrong, I don't watch a video. I go throw in the bull pen until it feels right.
When I came into baseball, I had one goal for my career - the Hall of Fame.
I'm a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.
I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.
Clemens, Seaver, Gibson, Maddux - I just don't see myself in that category. I'm flattered that maybe it's debatable at this point.
With the White Sox, when we do stuff, everybody's opinion is asked for, is given and then decisions are made on just about everything.
I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.
I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over.
When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes.
Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it.
One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you.
I mulled over what he had told me as I savored the Scotch. Not bad, really — like a beer that’s been in a brawl.
Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about that game, but I don't remember when it happened last.
Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
I don't agree with everything that any of our political leaders say or believe - that's going to happen sometimes.
