No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

I always tried to learn about the hitters. Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch. He'd never see that one again.

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day.

You must have an alibi to show why you lost. If you haven't one, you must fake one. You self confidence must be maintained.

A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.

I am not a veteran environmentalist. I don't live in a house made of recycled tires, I've never handcuffed myself to a tree, and I don't grow my own organic rutabaga.

I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.

To know who we are, we must first know we are LOVE.

I was nobody until.... now.... Now I think that I'm somebody!

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

I never met a girl I didn't meet

I don't want the money. I don't want the drama. I just want to do my show. I want to have fun again.

The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis.

It is important to have someone that supports you and encourage you, someone that makes you feel that you are unstoppable, that you can do anything in the world because you have him.

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization.

I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.