"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."

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

"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."