You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready your lawyer lined up.

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

All good balls to hit are strikes, though not all strikes are good balls to hit.

You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns.

What we can't say we can't say, and we can't whistle it either.

Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.

I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

The key to success in every field is to hate failure in every way.

I didn't drive eleven hours across the state of Texas to watch my cholesterol.

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.

Did you sleep well?" "No, I made a couple of mistakes.

If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.