In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.

Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.

Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

I didn't get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

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.

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of.

Career highlights? I had two - I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.

How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase.

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I've enjoyed doing the games. I don't ever go to the park where I don't have a good day. I don't like losing. But I don't think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don't think once.

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players' equipment.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year... unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.

I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

I was in Fort Lauderdale from about age 7 to 14. And that's where I learned the most about music. My favorite DJ was this guy named DJ Laz and the Miami bass guys. I was super into, like, Arthur Baker, that kind of stuff.

Determining how many asbestos suits have been filed or how much companies have spent to resolve them is difficult. Cases are filed in state and federal courts, and many companies do not disclose their spending on settlements.

The first time I kissed Brad my knees went weak - I literally lost my breath!

A kiss with anyone, on or off camera, can be intimidating. I've been kissing for nearly two decades now, and I'm always convinced I'm not doing it right. Chemistry is so important in a great kiss. You can act your way through anything, but it's hard with a kiss.

The question we ask is - if there is life on other planets, should we expect it to be based on the same molecules, i.e. be universal - or should we expect it to depend on the local conditions, i.e. on the planet's geochemistry. So to find out, we try experiments on biomolecules, starting with such geochemistry conditions.

I'm very much looking forward to my 30-40 years of acting, and, as I get older, I'm really looking forward to some of the roles that are out there to play.

I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.

Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you.

My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss.

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

I like comfy feet. If I'm not barefoot, you'll probably find me with a pair of New Balance on.

A lot of the characters I play on Japanese shows are actually acted in Japan by women. I don't know what that says about me.

I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.

One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup - and I lost every dollar.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one go ahead get married.

I'm not going to sit here and bash the manager, we have to regroup.

I can't serve just the Negro cause. I've got to serve all the people of Massachusetts.

I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.

I've been very happy with all the teams I've played for. They all treated me very well.