A nation without heroes is nothing.

When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth.

I was born to play baseball.

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this Earth.

I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.

Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.

In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.

I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.

There's no difference between me and you. You need something, a glove, a place to live, you let me know.

To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.

Eventually your little choices are going to become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.

May you find grace to be faithful at all times to the Lord.

I think the country requires fresh leadership. I do not think I can be the captain to take the country to its next destination.

One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed.

A work is not art until enough noise has been made about it and someone rich comes along and buys it.

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

I'm the kind of person who would rather rock in my rocking chair when I'm old and regret a few things that I did than to sit there and regret that I never tried.

I made a decision that to me, photography had to be something that I could feel. I could feel in my stomach. I could not take pictures that were not connected to my own inner life.

Italy is not a country for beginners.

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can.