I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.

Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.

I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.

As long as I can compete, I won't quit.

All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.

Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?

Learning comes from books

Grace is goodness.

if at all, anger has to be exercised.....let it be superficial

Those eyes so ecstatic with the gleam of new life, the wide laugh that no doubt uses up so much of the breath contained in those tiny lungs.

When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.

All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.

Perseverance is one key. And do what you like.

Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.

If we free the people of Iraq, we will be respected in the Arab world... and I think we will be respected around the world.