When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb.

I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.

I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits.

There's other ways to make your head and muscles bigger than just steroids.

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.