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.

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.

We were mighty short of infielders in those days

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

Here lies one whose name was writ on water.

We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other.

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

Instinct is the most powerful thing you have, and you have to trust it.

I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.

Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington.

On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

Best football player I played against? I think Messi. He killed us.

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music

He's the best centre in the game I think, definitely the best in the Super League by far.