"A cloud hangs over baseball. It's a cloud called drugs and it's permeated our game"

"Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian"

"I don't do drugs. I am drugs"

"A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings"

"In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol"

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me"

"These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up"

"Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill"

"Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person"

"I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota"

"I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game"