* 'Baseball is, I think, the greatest game in the world'.
* 'I keep my eyes clear, and I hit 'em where they ain't'.
* 'When you play this game for 20 years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand'.
* 'I'm the straw that stirs the drink'.
* On hitting against Sandy Koufax, 'Trying to hit him is like trying to drink coffee with a fork'.
* 'There's a deep fly ball...Winfield goes back...back...his head hits the wall...and it rolls off...and it's rolling all the way back to second base. This is a terrible thing for the Padres'!
* 'I've seen the future and it's much like the present, only longer'.
* 'There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of 'em'.
* 'Hitting is timing, pitching is upsetting timing'.
* 'A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives'
* 'If I knew I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself'
* 'People ask me how I'd like to be remembered. I tell them I'd like to be remembered as the guy who hit the line drive, over Bobby Richardson's head.'
* 'Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you'.
* 'Anybody with ability can play in the major leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat'.
* 'I've never known a day when I didn't learn something new about this game'.
* When asked about the Cubs inability to win a World Series since 1908 or a Pennant since 1945, this person responded, 'Any team can have a bad century'. ?
* 'It ain't over 'til it's over'.
* "Sixty! Count 'em, sixty! Let's see some other son of a (expletive) match that!"
* "They shot the wrong McKinley!"
* This Texas native famous for his strikeouts, once said: "One of the beautiful things about baseball is, that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to reach down and prove something". Who said this?