I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.

When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth.

I was born to play baseball.

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this Earth.

I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.

Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.

A nation without heroes is nothing.

In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.

I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.

There's no difference between me and you. You need something, a glove, a place to live, you let me know.

To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

A lot of things have changed and will change, I can only wish you the best as it happens.Malice

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.

I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies.

Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!

A certain group of adolescents evidence clear "druggie" behavior and attributes some time before they actually begin drug use.