You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

Never feel sorry for me, just teach me and watch me grow.

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind... life would have seemed to me empty.

We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.

An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world.

Forever turned out to be too long.

The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness.

I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.