I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.

There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.

It's possible to spend money anywhere in the world if you put your mind to it, something I proved conclusively by running up huge debts in Cincinnati.

Five runs ahead and he'd knock in all the runs I could ask for. One run behind and he was going to kill me.