A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, "Should I spike myself?"

I'd rather be lucky than good

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

One rule I had was make your best pitch and back up third base. That relay might get away and you've got another shot at him.

I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.

Hell, Lou (Gehrig) it took fifteen years to get you out of a game. Sometimes I'm out in fifteen minutes.

I talked to the ball a lot of times in my career. I yelled, "Go foul. Go foul."

The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield.

I'm something like the old soak who never knew whether his wife told him to take one drink and come home at 12, or take 12 and come home at one.

You just can't imagine the kind of guy he was without seeing him play. He was a circus, a play, a movie, all rolled into one.

I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

But of these things I must not now speak. I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets.

I was completely and irrevocably in lust

The cat . . . is for the man who appreciates beauty as the one living force in a blind and purposeless universe.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.

I was trying to get out of the night clubs and was thinking maybe I'll go to the colleges now; that's where you can speak your mind.

Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.

Where is the money going to come from? From wherever it is at the moment.

Meditation is the only way you can transcend the negative thoughts, and then positive thoughts will come spontaneously & automatically.

There has been a little distress selling on the stock exchange.