Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

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.

You were born to be amazing.

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.

Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.

You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.

The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.

I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs.

I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

Don't be afraid of your worst times. If you learn from them, you'll look back on them as the best times.

Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls.