I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

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.

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is the escapist mentality becomes prevalent, giving birth to the syndrome of economic refugees.

Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.

My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.

I don't need gold in heaven, I gotta have it now.

What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on budget?

When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.

There's no such thing as a mistake--we do it! There's no such thing as an accident--we do it!.

Not all guys that look a certain way or dress a certain way or act a certain way are the same.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

The secret of this sport is, while you're the nail, hang in there, let them hit you, until the day you become the hammer, then you smash them back!