They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.

Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.

I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.

God is my strength.

My god, they're everywhere.

Dare to forge your own path. Even rocks can roll.

I always say to audiences of men: "Cooperation beats submission. Trust me."

Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.

I like working all the time. I hate taking breaks. I don't like the weekends.

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

I have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves.

Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.

I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, "Godfather I" and "Godfather II," and "Lonesome Dove".