A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

Stay away from drugs and alcohol. Listen to your moms and dads. In this great country of ours you do whatever you set your mind to. Make us proud of you.

If ye wear underwear, it's a skirt. If ye dinna, it's a kilt.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

It is better to forget about yourself altogether.

Faith is the evidence of divine adoption.

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

In my mind, continuity means the best writer at a company is held hostage by the worst.

Sometimes I couldn't help thinking that the unluckiest thing about being the thirteenth child was having all those older brothers and sisters telling me what to do.

It’s just me against the world.