A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.

There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.

At my age, I'm just happy to be named the greatest living anything.

The reason I play so hard is that somewhere out there is some kid who has never seen me play before, and I don't want to disappoint him.

You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you're down.

If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.

I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn't want to let him down.

Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.

The drug problem’ cannot be understood without a critical examination of the language and narratives of underpinning the explanatory models invoked to prove that there is a 'drug problem.

Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.

I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.

I don't say anything. One of the reporters asked me in the scrum in there, and I said, no, I didn't say anything to anybody. I can only hurt them right now. I cannot help them.

And try as I might, I am having difficulty giving a f**k.

My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted.

Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it.

The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen.

I have a huge relationship with Brazil; it's almost a love affair, I would say. And to me, to introduce that specific martial art like capoeira in Hollywood movies was something important to me.