All good balls to hit are strikes, though not all strikes are good balls to hit.

Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready your lawyer lined up.

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got.

I heard the breeze whisper your name to the trees. And the flowers giggled smiling at the leaves. I and my loneliness keep talking about you.

Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life.

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.

Guns make you stupidbetter to fight your wars with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart.

Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.

I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, 'Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.

It was the only way he knew to protect the court, the faery, and the only mortal who'd ever mattered to him.

I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear. I seek a society non-reliant on nuclear energy, a society that can do without nuclear energy, and Japan can prove a role model. It’s possible.

I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.