You don't have to be big to be a big leaguer. Look at Phil Rizzuto. He's really small and he's been one of the greatest that ever was.

I don't think anyone ever liked to play more than I did.

If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.

On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived.

All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.

What is the top requirement for a second baseman? A fine shortstop. I am fortunate in having the greatest shortstop in baseball, Luis Aparicio.

(Doc) Cramer told me I was hitting too much off the front foot and that I wasn't using the right kind of bat. I had been using a long, skinny stick and Cramer got me a thicker one.

(Jim) Landis is such a good player because he plays every day as if he expects to be sent to the minors next week.

On October 19, 1949, I got a telephone call from the Philadelphia (A's) front office informing me I had been traded to the White Sox for Joe Tipton. I was surprised and hurt.

Second base is anything but magic. If it's anything at all, it's speed, sureness with your hands and lots of hard work.

We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad.

When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.

Leadership … is a collective and constantly redistributed function, and not the private property of the few or The One.

If you are spending more time dreaming in your sleep than you do while awake, then you aren't busy enough with your heart's desires.

The mirror is the conscience of women they never do a thing without first consulting it.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.

I got a bit bored of just me and my guitar.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

For better or worse, I take my acting seriously. I may not have been in the best movies ever made, but I take it deathly serious, and I love being an actor.

I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.