I stare out the window and wait for spring.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters.

A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence.

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

I've cheated, or someone on my team has cheated, in almost every single game I've been in.

When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

Like a child who saves their favourite food on the plate for last, I try to save all thoughts of you for the end of the day so I can dream with the taste of you on my tongue.

Explore the power of creativity.

Every capitalist is rich, but every rich is not a capitalist.

my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.

Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

I have to say that I thought search-and-rescue duties over Snowdonia were physically and mentally demanding, but looking after a 3-week-old baby is up there!

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.

In my opinion I do not think I am a better guitarist than Ace, I honestly think we're both different, and we both brought something unique to the musical.