Only triple I ever got.

I'd rather be lucky than good

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

One rule I had was make your best pitch and back up third base. That relay might get away and you've got another shot at him.

I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.

Hell, Lou (Gehrig) it took fifteen years to get you out of a game. Sometimes I'm out in fifteen minutes.

I talked to the ball a lot of times in my career. I yelled, "Go foul. Go foul."

The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield.

I'm something like the old soak who never knew whether his wife told him to take one drink and come home at 12, or take 12 and come home at one.

You just can't imagine the kind of guy he was without seeing him play. He was a circus, a play, a movie, all rolled into one.

I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure which is - try to please everybody.

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.

A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against

The only thing I do know is that from chaos comes opportunity.

Playing the drums hurts my back.

To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak.

To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly. We did that for a long time and I don't think it's very smart.

What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks