Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.

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.

Chits knew no ideology.

While the White House has condemned anti-Muslim rhetoric as divisive, the administration is also worried such talk will hurt antiterrorism efforts.

Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.

When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.

A good walk every day does wonders for my soul.

I'm happy when people decide that they are more aligned with me and my party but they should also think about being active and aligned with the parties that disagree with me on certain issues.

I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage.

To write an article about someone and then to have that person murdered is disturbing.

I couldn't imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it had been driven over by a school bus after someone had taken a bath with it.

I realized painting could look like a film, and a film like a painting.