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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus

I am a war president.

Different versions of a true story

How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion when I cannot make two timepieces agree!

I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

I forgot how to throw a boomerang, but then it came back to me.

There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall.

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.

When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.