It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.

Sometimes in this game its as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

I think I have signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?

Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

They laboriously do nothing.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why they become politicians.

The hearts letter is read in the eyes.

I hadn't liked him at first. He did sort of grow on you after a while. Like the cosmopolitans. Or maybe because of the cosmopolitans.

I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn't have any cellulite then.

I'm normally a burger and chips girl - such a cheap date.

China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan.