"I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect."
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"I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard."
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"I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment."
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"You can't get more appreciation than that, to be elected by the fans. That's the ultimate, really."
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"There's only one Mark McGwire. The man walked over 160 times. Just think. If he walks 60 times, he might hit 100 homers."
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"My only goal is to play 162 games and help this team win. If I can do that, everything will take care of itself."
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"It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking."
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"Most of the places I've been, I've been a main piece of the puzzle."
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"The kids competed for a full 32 minutes. We want the kids to compete on every possession."
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"Not being re-signed in Baltimore was probably the lowest point, mentally, of my career. That city was the only place where I wanted to be at the time, based on everything that had transpired."
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"You can't shelter it. You can't hide it. You have to let people know what you're going through, what you're feeling, what you think you have that's a problem."
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"You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself."
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"People always ask me how I can hit the ball so far, and I say, 'I just swing.' It's the coaches who first told me I had good bat speed. I was just swinging, and I guess it was fast. I'm pretty fast at everything."
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"I was disappointed in everything - my start and the team's start. People got down on me, but I never got down on myself. I still believed I could be the type of player everyone, including me, thought I was going to be."
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"I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million."
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"Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game."
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"Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years."
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"I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose."
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"I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do."
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"I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element."
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