I went to jail. I looked like one of those savings-and-loan guys leaving the jail house.

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.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.

The World is enough brutal don't make it mad and crazy more, so far I think that the adrenaline is on it's own full capacity.

The transfiguration was a physical illustration of what the renewed mind looks like in the spiritual.

The best putting advice I ever received was make sure you concentrate real hard on keeping that darn ball real low

Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds.

At last you kissed me, I could die in waves again, and one good lick of quicksand took.

To be or not to be is not the question. The question is whether you can transcend these notions.

I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks

I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.

It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.