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

"It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course"

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

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

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

"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball"

"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power"

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

"No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball"

"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"