Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible.

The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

The race doesn't always belong to the swift nor the battle to the strong. It belongs rather to those who run the race, who stay the course and who fight the good fight.

When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.

And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.

I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.

I came to love Fenway. It was a place that rejuvenated me after a road trip; the fans right on top of you, the nutty angles. And the Wall. That was my baby, the left-field wall, the Green Monster.

You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.

We are limited by knowledge, not by courage.

When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.

Also, I'm angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can change human lives.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.

We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article.

If you’re not happy looking a knob in the face, there’s something wrong.

Things always seem to glide away. They come to you, stay a moment, then leave again.

I'm not really a very social person. It exhausts me when I'm out.

The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.