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.

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 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.

I don't want people to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron.

The world is filled with heroes and wannabes, so let me just play the villain.

The world is proof that God is a committee.

The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.

I have not seen the National League enough to know.

Most prisons have wide gates!

I find I am most productive with at least six hours of sleep.

Over the years I realized the damage fundamentalism did to my own spiritual and mental health. I've spend time recovering, studying scripture, sessions with a therapist, twelve step recovery.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.