Whether you're trying to excel in athletics or in any other field, always practice. Look, listen, learn - and practice, practice, practice. There is no substitute for work, no shortcut to the top.

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

Be anything you want to be, but don't be dull.

It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.

I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

I don't see why you reporters keep confusing Brooks (Robinson) and me. Can't you see that we wear different numbers.

If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

I had no trouble communicating, the player's just didn't like what I had to say.

The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything.

You have to have a short memory as a closer.

I just love the smell of an old book store and the feel of the crisp pages along my fingertips.

Much later, Alice would wonder what might have happened if she had gone to bed when she was supposed to.

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over

Sometimes fantasy provides the only reasonable explanation for life's inexplicable moments.

Life is full of screwups, " he said, chucking another paper at the split-level before taking the corner. "You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence.

However high we climb in the pursuit of knowledge we shall still see heights above us, and the more we extend our view, the more conscious we shall be of the immensity which lies beyond.

I think the crucial thing about being an actor is to be doing it.

I feel a responsibility to get the truth out into the world.

That's where my job comes in. Getting the E.U. and U.S. to agree.

You can't save the world if you can't pay the rent.