A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.

I always tried to learn about the hitters. Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch. He'd never see that one again.

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day.

You must have an alibi to show why you lost. If you haven't one, you must fake one. You self confidence must be maintained.

I am not a veteran environmentalist. I don't live in a house made of recycled tires, I've never handcuffed myself to a tree, and I don't grow my own organic rutabaga.

I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.

Do good, live in the most positive and joyful way possible every day.

A stroll by the silent shores watching the sunset-Every bookaholic's dream.

The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?

American acculturation is a very powerful form of brainwashing. I know more about it now, but it's very difficult to move away from a world that you've been told was the greatest country on earth.

You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.

The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.

I've always had this tremendous and very deep feeling of knowing my purpose, you know? It never dawned on me, it always very much known.

Do not pretend - be. Do not promise - act. Do not dream - realize.

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.

I have been given nothing. God makes men what they are.