Winning isn't everything. Wanting to is.

He'd (Reggie Jackson) give you the shirt off his back. Of course he'd call a press conference to announce it.

The thing about Reggie (Jackson) is that you know he's going to produce. And if he doesn't, he's going to talk enough to make people think he's going to produce.

If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond.

I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.

This 20th win means more to me than the perfect game in 1968.

They don't know who I was or that I played baseball.

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.

This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

Facts do not lie within biased opinions.

Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.

I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you.

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.

Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.

If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.

I been the same dude my whole life.

She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.

An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.