Failure will never stand int he way of success if you learn from it.

Failure is a part of success.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

You may not think you're going to make it. You may want to quit. But if you keep your eye on the ball, you can accomplish anything.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

What you do with your life and how you do it is not only a reflection on you, but on your family and all of those institutions that have helped to make you who you are.

Does Pete (Rose) hustle? Before the All-Star game he came into the clubhouse and took off his shoes and they ran another mile without him.

I don't want people to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron.

When a person is engaged, dedication to their craft, desire to achieve, and relentless commitment to make a difference is palpable. You can see it, hear it, and feel it…and it is contagious!

I see nothing. I do not move. It is an empty time, animal time, vigilant, I am submerged, under the earth and under time. I listen. Perhaps the waiting is a form of prayer.

An air of mystery closed around the details of his early life. I didn't pry. He had been through hell and had a right to his secrets.

Claire coaxed free another loop of cloth. The slow side of cotton against cotton matched the soft tenor or her voice.'I have lots of talents Mr. Ryland. Listening is only one of them.

We really need to come behind and press for marriage equality in Northern Ireland.

A river continually fed by a living fountain may as soon end its streams before it come to the ocean, as a stop be put to the course and progress of grace before it issue in glory.

The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a year you've had; it's a fresh start.

I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it.

There's a lot of people who don't like Tom Brady and I'm OK with that.

Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.