I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

I've always been a slave to my heart.

To be successful, one must take chances.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

Helping someone is what life is all about.

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

Raw power without Godly obedience is a long walk off a short conscience.

The value of time is immeasurable.

Gratitude is the key to manifestation, for gratitude connects you directly to the source.

Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those who overcame that fear.

Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live.

I don't think I'm better than other people, I think I'm different from other people, because I do different things.

If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?

Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources.