I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.

I can't stand satisfaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection.

Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.

If you're associated with the Philadelphia media or town, you look for negatives. I don't know if there's something about their upbringing or they have too many hoagies, or too much cream cheese.

Pete Rose is the most likable arrogant person I've ever met.

You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.

I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year.

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.

It isn't that hard to get RBI's when you're hitting home runs, you generally get a least one.

i WILL reach success because i will not accept anything less

Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.

You've got to have camaraderie or togetherness on a baseball team if you want to win.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

I don't see any need to unduly burden the taxpayer.

The issue of spiritual power is to meet the limited mortal circumstance with unlimited thought.

The American people are seeing in President Trump a leader who is keeping his word to the American people.

Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses. Write not again, but come, sweet mate

The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness.