Occupation: Baseball Player Birth: April 14, 1941
Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand..
I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk..
I've got a 15-year old son and a 10-year old daughter, and if they were going to do one of the following things: be an alcoholic; be a drug offender;….
Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a r….
Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important r….
I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn't live anywhere else..
I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball..
I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing..
When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball..
You'd be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle..
If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block - lifetime ban. Death penalty. I spent my entire lif….
I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own te….
It's easy to practice something that you are good at, and that is what most people do. Wat's tough is to go ot and to work hard on the things that yo….
I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball..
When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for se….
When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a pitcher who over-impressed me. That's n….
Singles hitters drive Fords. Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs..
Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired..
See the ball; hit the ball..
I don't like to be compared to Joe Jackson. because Joe Jackson, I think, took money to throw World Series games. Well, I know I bet on my own team t….
I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball..