I am not too serious about anything. I believe you have to enjoy yourself to get the most out of your ability. I can take the criticism with the acco….

He said I couldn't do (off the field) what I did when I was 23 or 24, and I paid attention to him. Damn it, I got a trainer and went to spring traini….

Don't try to be a hero. Try to be a winner..

I was three over. One over a house, one over a patio, and one over a swimming pool..

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story..

Do I want someone to get more hits than me? No. Do I want someone to hit more home runs than me? No. Do I want someone to have more RBI than me? No. ….

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talk….

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..

Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters..

I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that..

Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times..

If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors..

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out..

I used to be a mad hitter. And then I learned the longer you wait out the ball, the better you see it. And the better you see it, the harder you hit ….

A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that..

He looks like a greyhound, but he runs like a bus..

If anyone stays away (after the 1981 strike), my response is this - those people had no right to ever come to the park, because they aren't true base….

Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle..

I never lifted a weight in my life. Why am I going to do steroids? That's not going to do me any good. We didn't have any weights in our clubhouse. W….

The Air Corps . . . does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating . . . funds for basic jet propulsion research and experimentation..

American League teams don't bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot..