A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.

The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'

A manager doesn't hear the cheers.

There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.

The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.

Only when your old mental patterns have been ditched will you be able to put your ideas into action.

A young hero is the world's greatest attraction.

A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.

Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism.

The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.

The attacks on our police and the terrorism of our cities threaten our very way of life.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

The multiculturalism movement must be unmasked for the fraud that it is. There are superior cultures, and ours is one of them.

Lack is more in means, than in principles.

I'm in love with the city. You can impress an Australian with a city, but you can't impress them with a beach.