"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."

"The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose."

"You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."

"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it."

"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts."

"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging."