In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated.

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.

Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.

I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.

It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.

Art fuels the fire inside me.

The most important thing you have in life is your God's given destiny. With that being said, dare not to ever permit people or things to take it away from you.

I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me.

Conceit may bring about one's own downfall.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Watch that boy. He's going to startle somebody someday.

Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources.

The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process.

I hope I die before I get old.