I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.

I try not to get impressed. I just try to look at what I see.

My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.

I was watching television and I saw how you stick your fingers in a person's eyes to slow them down." Grandma Mazur

My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it.

You have to specialize the product.

Collaboration and celebration (and gratitude) create impressions of success in your subconscious, so that you may create future experiences in which you feel celebrated and grateful.

The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.

That's when I use the word frustrating, when your body breaks down or your body doesn't do the things I'm asking it to do at my age, because I'm trying to keep up with the Joneses.

The only way for a fighter to get back in shape is to fight his way back.

This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias's rises and falls. That's why I can't let him step in to defend me now.