I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

You'd be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle.

Jay Z got Cano a big raise, but he got him an extra 30-day vacation - and it's called October.

See the ball; hit the ball.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.

Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.

Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.

Every time I step up to the plate, I expect to get a hit. If I don't expect to get a hit, I have no right to step into the batter's box in the first place.

Life has the meaning we give it, no more, no less.

The ego hates losing – even to God.

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.

The shame would be if Democrats get thrown out of office without ever having tried Democratic policies.

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.

You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you’re screwed.

I almost broke my coccyx on 'The Wolf Man,' and I banged my head once. I had to fall really hard.

It's not an idea until you write it down.

Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.