The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.

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 holy time establish the holy-event.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror.

Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

I don't think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack...

Outside is the joy of the drop. Inside is the joy of the ocean.

Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

If you want less of something, tax it. If you want more of something, don't tax it or reduce the tax burden.