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.

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

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.

People expected something for nothing, that’s why they did nothing so beautifully these days.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

One thing I have learned in my 46 years on this planet is that the greatest opportunity for growth and understanding comes through the challenges that we encounter.

I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter the result.

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

Even a tiny step is one step closer to where you are going.

I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.

A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.

My love is as a fever, longing still.

Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own.