All I have is natural ability.

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

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

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.

Sometimes you will let go meet others, travel, experience beautiful things, but there's always someone you feel is home.

Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.

It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier.

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.

Don't be afraid to write crap - it makes the best fertilizer. The more you write the better your chances of growing something wonderful.

You are pretty smart. But your body is smarter.

Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying.

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.