A lot of people wrote that Roger (Maris) and I didn't like each other and that we didn't get along. Nothing could be further from the truth.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

The changless part in you recognizes change

Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people, " I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time.

If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing.

Cuba has not accepted the domain and imposition of an empire that has wanted to dominate us for over half a century [America].

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.

Remember, work, well done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.

The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.

Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

I really have the American dream licked.