A lot of folks that ain't saying 'ain't,' ain't eating.

Sure I eat what I advertise. Sure I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can't be beat.

If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time.

Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss?

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Let the teachers learn the kids English. Ol' Diz will learn the kids baseball.

Me and Paul (Dean) will probably win forty games (they won forty-nine).

The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.

I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?

I only went to the third grade because my father only went to the fourth and I didn't want to pass him.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes.

In the future, I want to have children.

Life is a horse: either you ride it or it rides you.

A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.

Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.

I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y'know? I'm country.

The one thing all that battle taught me, is that no one walks away without scars. No one. (Bad Moon Rising)