In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

My favorite umpire is a dead one.

A ballplayer has two reputations, one with the other players and one with the fans. The first is based on ability. The second the newspapers give him.

There was never a finer character - charitable and friendly to his foes and ever willing to help a youngster breaking in.

I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty of hitting.

If you have a definite purpose with a plan, you will definitely reach it.

His voice is both low and quiet, and it has this hypnotic rhythm to it. I wonder whether someday he'll give sermons with that voice, whether he'll throw down judgement with that voice.

I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me.

I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I'd got the part! It just shows dreams do come true.

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction.

Set goals not for the outcome itself, but for who you get to become in the process.

It is not caving in to the bees to stop poking a stick into their hive.

The SF [Supreme Fascist, i.e. God] created us to enjoy our suffering. The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans.

Feminism is just a way for ugly women to get into the mainstream of America.