We were mighty short of infielders in those days

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

You talk to leadership in China, and THEY are all the engineers. They get what is going on immediately. The Americans don't because they're all lawyers.

I don't fail. I succeed at finding out what doesn't work.

The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.

I try to do yoga when I can to make sure that I'm flexible and that I'm not going to tear any muscle or pull anything.

An adult woman should not be so possessive of her own birthday that she begrudges her friends the chance to get married on the same day.

Through our faith, we gain the courage to take action. And through action, we move one step closer toward the manifestation of our desires.

The most important thing you do in your life is to die.