I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

I'd rather be lucky than good

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

One rule I had was make your best pitch and back up third base. That relay might get away and you've got another shot at him.

I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.

Hell, Lou (Gehrig) it took fifteen years to get you out of a game. Sometimes I'm out in fifteen minutes.

I talked to the ball a lot of times in my career. I yelled, "Go foul. Go foul."

The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield.

I'm something like the old soak who never knew whether his wife told him to take one drink and come home at 12, or take 12 and come home at one.

You just can't imagine the kind of guy he was without seeing him play. He was a circus, a play, a movie, all rolled into one.

I'd rather not throw the ball at all.

Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

The importance of setting a date, as in choosing a colour, is a matter of selection. Orange may be seen equally well as 'the decline and fall of red' or 'the rise and triumph of yellow'.

Stars are much further away from where they are now for those who have no dreams and no intentions to reach them!

When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.

There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

Within us there is the capacity of being anyone or anything