You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.

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

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

I'll tell you a story about Johnny Magory!

Fiction writers, magicians, politicians and priests are the only people rewarded for entertaining us with their lies

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

I have the talent and the tools to win.

I've been in the Bible every day since I've been the president.

It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself.

Marketing strategy is a series of integrated actions leading to a sustainable competitive advantage.

Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.

A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all.