Ballplayers, like everyone else, like to get told they did something right.

I was doing what I love to do: play baseball. Not going to complain about that.

Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.

I could run like a gazelle, couldn't I?

I loved coming up with players in scoring position and I had to drive them in.

I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

The Lord's capacity to forgive a person who is truly repentant is without limit, without qualification

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.

Don’t take your hands off me even once tonight.” (Vlad)

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.

You can see it right away when a person is dressing outside of who she is.

That which holds our attention determines our action.

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

Great Time makes all things dim.