Butcher boy, damn it, butcher boy.

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.

There must be logical minds among all species if they hope to survive. Not everyone can be bridled with hope and optimism.

Creativity is a combination of discipline and childlike spirit.

It takes two to tango”

Whether your cup is half-full or half-empty, remind yourself there are others without one.

You don’t have to stop dreaming.

Questions create the only light that can permeate a formidable truth.

In fashion we're lucky, we make dreams come true.

I just love fiction. I love it.

On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

Faith is the enemy of discovery.