The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

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.

Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.

Don't we all know that art is dangerous. You play it - then you live it.

...if that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.

My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering.

Good-humor makes all things tolerable

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

"I had Krishna and I have lost Him." That is humility.

Interest is a terrible thing to waste.