I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.

You can sum up the game of baseball in one word: 'You never know.'

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.

That's why I don't talk. Because I talk too much.

There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them.

How can I play baseball if I'm stupid? If I was stupid I wouldn't have pitched in the World Series. I'd be playing ball in Mexico or Yugoslavia or on Pluto.

I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.

I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar.

When you have no real power, go public -- really public. The public is where the real power is.

I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books.

The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.

I try not to underestimate my opponents, no matter how ridiculous their beards.

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.

Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

I would also think that the replay showed it to be worse than it actually was.

The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and an intelligent approach to the living future.