Baseball is my life, the only thing I know and can talk about. My only interest.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters.

A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence.

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

I've cheated, or someone on my team has cheated, in almost every single game I've been in.

Know you will win and you will win!

…I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not, ' laughed Mrs. Jo…

It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.

Everyone was going crazy, like they’d just witnessed the birth of Jesus and the invention of electricity at the same time. Jude was a rock star, their savior, and they were paying him homage.

The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.

I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream.

We are the new "barbarians", forged in iron hardness in the fires of their hate and persecution. All over the world, we wait to pounce.

Hymns of today that may be sung by people who know the thought of the age...are not afraid that any truth of science will destroy Christianity, or any revolution will overthrow the Kingdom of Heaven.

I dont really ever compare myself to other people, I dont even measure myself in terms of anyone but myself.

I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them.