It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course..

Failure is part of success..

I had many, many, many death threats. I couldn't open letters for a long time, because they all had to be opened by either the FBI or somebody..

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel ….

Baseball needs me because it needs somebody to stir the pot, and I need it because it's my life. It's the means I have to make a little difference in….

I've tried a lot of things in the off-season, but the only thing I really know is baseball..

You may not think you're going to make it. You may want to quit. But if you keep your eye on the ball, you can accomplish anything..

Once the record was mine, I had to use it like a Louisville Slugger. I believed, and still do, that there was a reason why I was chosen to break the ….

I thought my chances to make the Braves were better and that they were being fairer to me, paying me more money to play in a lower classification ...….

If I knew exactly what I know now and had it to do over, I'd be a switch hitter. No telling what I could have done..

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat..

I came to the Braves on business, and I intended to see that business was good as long as I could..

On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the ….

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious..

The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball ow….

Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help..

Maybe the day will come when I can sit back and be content....But until that day comes, I intend to stay in the batter's box - I don't let the big gu….

The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home ….

Baseball is a lot like the ivy-covered wall of Wrigley Field--it gives off a great appearance, but when you run into it, you discover the bricks unde….

You've got to remember, the older you get the slower you get. I've seen a lot of players get old ... if I can have a good season in 1972 and come bac….

To this day, whenever I'm in Milwaukee, which is often, I'm reminded that the people there still haven't gotten over the Braves leaving ... If it hel….