If people want to say Barry is No. 1, they won't get an argument from me. As long as I get to be No. 2.

Hopefully, they can say, "There goes the best baseball player in the world." I honestly believe I did everything in baseball that a baseball player can do, and I did it with love.

Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

My name gives me a little more publicity, but there is some pressure living up to the standards of a legend. I just tell myself to play my game, be myself and enjoy every minute of it.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.