I've experienced a lot of things in baseball, but I've never been traded during a strike. At least I know I'll be in a new uniform the next time I put one on.

Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready your lawyer lined up.

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

All good balls to hit are strikes, though not all strikes are good balls to hit.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

If one billion of you watch and do not intercede as one million of you assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one billion of you are a billion times guilty.

Do not waste your time and life, searching for a job. Utilize your special skills to begin your own work.

The habit of happiness is achieved through the attitude of gratitude.

I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.

[Warren Beatty] is voraciously detail-oriented.

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.

The best thing to spend on your children is your time.

In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not eaten by humans as food, however.

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.