No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

I would give my life to fly in space. It's hard for me to talk about it but I would. I would then, and I will now.

The lesson of the Funk Dog: “You can forget what it used to feel like to feel good about life

The message was clear for baby boomers everywhere: Kurt Cobain was not merely some rock 'n' roll icon who couldn't handle drugs. In ways that were important to recognize, he was every parent's child.

Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.

River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.

Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.

Humans are the one species the world could do very well without.

The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper.

I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.

I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.