Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.

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.

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated.

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.

The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don't.

Art destroys silence.

I was one of five out of 100 people who passed the test, which just proved to me how little Americans are taught geography.

Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.

Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.

It's not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.

I'm so lonely I don't even want to be with myself anymore.

There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.

none can be Tyrants but Cowards.

On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.