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

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.

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.

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.

Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.

The Christian life doesn't work because we are such great followers. It works because Christ is such a great Leader.

To live the extraordinary ecstasy of a good rest, all you have to do is to get very tired!

The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

A joint European army is a very far-reaching proposal and it would be difficult to implement. Such initiatives are nevertheless needed.

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.

Jack Cardiff - the greatest cameraman who ever worked in colour - was a lab boy to start with so he knew Technicolor from the inside out.

The more security we have, the less freedom there is; more freedom means less security. You can hardly enough of both at the same time.