I had many, many, many death threats. I couldn't open letters for a long time, because they all had to be opened by either the FBI or somebody.

Failure is a part of success.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Failure will never stand int he way of success if you learn from it.

You may not think you're going to make it. You may want to quit. But if you keep your eye on the ball, you can accomplish anything.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

What you do with your life and how you do it is not only a reflection on you, but on your family and all of those institutions that have helped to make you who you are.

Does Pete (Rose) hustle? Before the All-Star game he came into the clubhouse and took off his shoes and they ran another mile without him.

To be successful, one has to be one of three bees - the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.

There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

I bit down three nails rooting for the Heat.

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

Fear is a sprit that really can stop you from living.

Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.