He can run, steal bases, throw, hit for average, and hit with power like I've never seen. Just don't put him at shortstop.

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.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.

A person or nation begins to live and act according to the word of God, as a result of change in the value system and therefore life around them changes

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

What we do in New Orleans, man - we party!

We learn a lot, and each museum ends up having its own distinctive character and personality.

Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star.

My focus is not on any one particular election or any one particular candidate. My focus is on the issues and policy that will make a difference expanding opportunity.

When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.