My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

I've always been a slave to my heart.

To be successful, one must take chances.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

Helping someone is what life is all about.

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

Be honest. Be truthful. If you tell lies, you lose your credibility.

The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries; mayhap treasures and pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests, await him.

Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.

[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'

Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.

The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.

No other single innovation had so much impact on history.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.