The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready your lawyer lined up.

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

All good balls to hit are strikes, though not all strikes are good balls to hit.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got.

Get out of bed and feed me already, person!

Within the immense ocean of galaxies and stars we are in a remote corner

I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy.

You might be a redneck if you've ever hauled a can of paint to the top of a water tower to defend your sister's honor.

Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.

There's a lot of idiots in Hollywood, a lot of people with no imagination, so as an actor you have to constantly re-show them what you can do.

When a Man has Married a WifeHe finds out whetherHer Knees & elbows are onlyglued together.