Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect

We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

One of the trademarks of a champion is that he can outlast you.

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to.

Peace above all, even above love.

We shall overcome every barrier by divine grace.

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

Fashion shows are really my way of communication.

The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!

If you want to know somebody, fight 'em. Have a fistfight with them.

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century.

The use of the Will as the projector of Mentative Currents is the real base of all Mental Magic.