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Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.

Not everybody's a baseball fan.

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up.

If some guys couldn't stand the heat, then they didn't belong in the major leagues. I don't know anybody who refused the World Series checks I helped them get.

To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it is fantastic. I have to say this about them, there are so many of these guys up here that were my role models, people I looked up to, people I wanted to be like.

Baseball needs more superstars.

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.