What's tough is being good every day.

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.

A lot of parents make you feel very awkward when you meet them.

All promises are empty - until they are fulfilled.

The atonement of Christ is not just for those who sin. The mercy of Christ encompasses all pain.

All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to yourself.

it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.

Jesus was a cross-dresser.

We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.

One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.

People in pain don’t always see things as clearly as they should.

It sometimes makes me feel sexy to wear something revealing. But I have gone too far. I have to be honest about that.