I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

I've always been a slave to my heart.

To be successful, one must take chances.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

Helping someone is what life is all about.

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

Talk to me. Say something, anything, " he pleaded quietly as if he was trying to tame a wild animal."There's nothing to say."He looked up and lowered his eyebrows on his eyes. "Why did you kiss me?

Consistency simplifies the problem more than hard work of one time because no problem cannot possibly beat you everyday.

That’s because they don’t know, ’ said Tyburn. ‘It’s like economics. Everybody’s got a theory, and some people make it their religion.

Many can argue not many converse.

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

If you ask why we meditate, I would say it's so we can become more flexible and tolerant to the present moment.

I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.