Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.

Sometimes in this game its as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.

I think I have signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?

The future is won or lost in the war of ideas.

We wanted peace. We did not care about anyone’s victory or defeat. We just wanted the bombs to stop falling on us.

Nothing is too late. It is only too late when you’ve completely given up.

Fashion exists for women with no taste etiquette for people with no breeding.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .

I got a Swede lawyer?!? She's gonna get everything!

I know that I'm the happiest of lovers.

Even if you're popular, there are times when you just feel like you're not a part of things.

Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.