If you can do it, it ain't braggin'... it's a matter of self-confidence. I got where I did because I wasn't no shrinking violet.

Sure I eat what I advertise. Sure I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can't be beat.

If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time.

Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss?

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Let the teachers learn the kids English. Ol' Diz will learn the kids baseball.

Me and Paul (Dean) will probably win forty games (they won forty-nine).

The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.

I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?

I only went to the third grade because my father only went to the fourth and I didn't want to pass him.

Death is not the beginning of an endless deep, dark, silent night but the beginning of a bright, joyful, eternal light.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned even the meanest yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades - that of government.

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.

The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.

Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.

I guess I thought the strength of my wanting would be enough to make him appear.

Context overrides. In different contexts, cells do different things.

Look into a flower and you see the whole cosmos.

None of my songs are written 'about' someone or something, they all just sort of tumble out unannounced, like the worst kind of house guest.