Those people don't know how tough that really was.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

One deed from a sage achieves more than a thousand deeds from warriors.

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

My suitcase must absolutely contain my iPod.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world.

Why would our president close the embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare.

Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.

Everything we can imagine becomes real.

Talk about tactful - she's got a tongue like a Kalashnikov!

Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.