I learned early on to never walk while I was on the ball field. I ran everywhere I went.

One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.

I asked no odds and I give none. A guy got in my way, I run over him.

From that day on, I ran from spot to spot.

To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.

Thank you, sir. But, uh, can you tell me where the First New York Regiment is?

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows.

Throw false spirituality away like a pair of old shoes.

Well, it hurts my feelings because the person that I read about sometimes in these gossip magazines is not the person who I am. So I don't want, you know, my fans to think that's how I am.

At 13 I was someone that didn't have a personality yet. It's a fascinating period in a human life. It's so exciting because you are in between childhood and adulthood.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.