"I don’t know if cortisone is good for you or not. But to take a shot every other ball game is more than I wanted to do and to walk around with a constant upset stomach because of the pills and to be high half the time during a ball game because you’re taking painkillers … I don’t want to have to do that [...] I don't regret one minute of the last 12 years but I think I would regret the one year that was too many."
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Excerpts from 1966 press conference, in Baseball: 8th Inning – A Whole New Ballgame (1994) by Ken Burns, Geoffrey C. Ward
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