I'd rather him (Grover Alexander) pitch a crucial game for me drunk, then anyone I've ever known sober. He was that good.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters.

A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence.

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

I've cheated, or someone on my team has cheated, in almost every single game I've been in.

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

It is in my internal and external struggles, when it feels like someone is river-dancing on my last nerve, that the fruit of the Spirit is developed.

I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.

I was just endorsed by ICE. They've never endorsed anybody before on immigration. I was just endorsed by ICE. I was just recently endorsed - 16,500 Border Patrol agents.

For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.