I was scared everyday I put on the uniform.

He looks like a greyhound, but he runs like a bus.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

I don't think I can play any other way but all out . . . I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

I was three over. One over a house, one over a patio, and one over a swimming pool.

Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.

Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.

I am not too serious about anything. I believe you have to enjoy yourself to get the most out of your ability. I can take the criticism with the accolades. Neither affects me.

There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.

A woman will be elected President before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes. I guarantee that.

I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.

Those who say that money can’t buy you love make it sound as if love can buy you money.

Metal business cards are a good investment. Especially if you were to meet Magneto. He would have no other choice but to be attracted to you.

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.

When you're not in love, when you don't have love, everybody you know falls in love.

I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.

A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.

I've never watched The Notebook either. Not big on romance flicks," I admitted, opening the huge cartons. "Really? I thought every girl has seen that movie and can quote it at a drop of a hat.

I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do.

The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?