One of the trademarks of a champion is that he can outlast you.

We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect

I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

This is what I want so don't be sad.

You’re too beautiful for your own good. Once you leave, we’ll have to send some of the guards with you. You’ll never survive on your own, poor thing.

So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wait. That's all.

Michelle Obama gives a speech, and everyone loves it. It's fantastic. They think she's absolutely great. My wife, Melania, gives the exact same speech... And people get on her case.

Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

I realize it's probably best to keep my politics to myself.

I think there's a little bit of idiot in everybody and I think some people cover it better than others but I think I am very much a guy who wears his heart on his sleeve.

Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust.

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.