It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Failure is a part of success.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Failure will never stand int he way of success if you learn from it.

You may not think you're going to make it. You may want to quit. But if you keep your eye on the ball, you can accomplish anything.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

What you do with your life and how you do it is not only a reflection on you, but on your family and all of those institutions that have helped to make you who you are.

Does Pete (Rose) hustle? Before the All-Star game he came into the clubhouse and took off his shoes and they ran another mile without him.

I don't want people to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron.

You can't go too wrong with books

The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.

CalArts was incredible for me. It's a school that I rave about and constantly want to give back to.

Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.

Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly.

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

Hawaii doesn't win many games in the United States.

Oh no, oh no... don't lift me, don't lift me.

If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.