How can I play baseball if I'm stupid? If I was stupid I wouldn't have pitched in the World Series. I'd be playing ball in Mexico or Yugoslavia or on Pluto.

You can sum up the game of baseball in one word: 'You never know.'

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.

That's why I don't talk. Because I talk too much.

There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them.

I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.

I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.

I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar.

And Rob knew then that he had picked the right person to tell.

True wealth isn't measured by what you have making you happy, true wealth is measured by being happy with what you have.

It’s just life. You can’t beat life.

Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.

I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up.

The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden.

It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.