Andy Van Slyke Quotations

The biggest adjustment from the minors was learning to spend $45 in meal money.

I can only guess that, for guys in their 30s and 40s who watched me play, they understood that the score never mattered and my paycheck never mattered (in relation) to how I played. I played with Little League enthusiasm and professional flair. That's what fans are really looking for.

I always respected Barry Bonds, and I wanted to let him know that I did in a certain way.

I don't care what you do - baseball or politics - George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years - Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids.

Good mothers are underrated, just like good defense.

With the Cardinals everybody would be reading the business section to see what their stocks were doing. You get to this locker room (Pirates) in the morning and everybody is looking at the sports page to see if Hulk Hogan won.

Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to follow.

It seems like Satan has thrown the DH into our game.

Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms. They just put them there with Velcro.

Mario Lemieux is Mr. Pittsburgh.