When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters.

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.

Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

Great leaders are most often God’s spokesmen.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

Take good care of yourself. Your life can be gone in a split second.

I think in the future I will end up doing a gospel album.

If you can't keep your hands off your girlfriend, then keep your hands off of God's daughter.

I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.

I just have to be very, very organised.

It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.