Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.

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.

He didn't want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth.

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

A person is neither right or wrong-- there is only a right attitude and a right interaction.

We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.

Life would be a darned sight simpler if feelings were as easy to patch up as a piece of sailcloth.

Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.

So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair othe human race.

I don't think all of my ideas are good. It's almost easier when people are critical of you because it helps with the quality control.

Media coverage of the legislative fights is overwhelmingly negative for agriculture interests. The impression left among consumers is that the proponents had something to hide.