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"I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play."
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"It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former."
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"Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become."
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"Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch."
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"There is but one game and that game is baseball."
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"I always get very calm with baseball."
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"I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games."
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"I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to."
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"When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons."
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"I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future."
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"I wasn't athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible."
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"Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was."
Baseball
"If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer."
Power
"I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life."
Anger
"At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports."
Sports
"I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing."
Education
"Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me."
Life
"When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it."
Money
"When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was."
Sports
"I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park."
Help
"I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something."
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