Always wanted to be a Major League player. Loved baseball. Followed it. Loved to play. Plus, I could always hit.

Unless you give it all you've got, there isn't any sense in playing.

I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.

Back in my day, we didn't think about money as much. We enjoyed playing the game. We loved baseball. I didn't think about anybody else but the Cardinals.

I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.

The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.

Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.

The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field.

Get eight hours of sleep regularly. Keep your weight down, run a mile a day.

Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.

There was never a day when I was as good as Joe DiMaggio at his best. Joe was the best, the very best I ever saw.

The key to success in blogging (and in many areas of life) is small but regular and consistent actions over a long period of time

Apparently I'm introspective... levelheaded... but at the same time, absolutely insane.

Time, my twin, take me by the hand through the streets of your city

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension

Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

What power is higher than the power of purity?

I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done.

You are my centre when I spin away.