Anybody with ability can play in the big 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 knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

People don't know this, but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came down with hepatitis. The trainer injected me with it!

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.

They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn't allow visitors in the clubhouse.

Between me and my roommate, we've hit 400 Major League home runs.

The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper deck. When he got up and walked away, the crowd booed.

I led the league in go get 'em next time.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.

When I played baseball I got death threats all the time--from my mother.

Nothing gets easier but our abilities get better.

There is no man in this world that does not have the ability to develop visions

When humankind cannot produce a philosopher to speak its mind, it longs for a poet to sing its heart

You were born rich and influential. You can do rich and influential in jammies and bunny slippers.

People hate politicians. And I can understand why.

I hate playing pretty or sane people. Most people are not attractive or all there.

Everything that I do, I have to do at my best. No one is perfect, but you can come close.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

Many people have overcome that home situation simply by having at least one caring adult, whether a teacher, mentor or religious leader.

I think Australians are more interested in what I am doing with their money than what I am doing with my own.