Can I smoke now without someone taking my picture?

Failure is a part of success.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Failure will never stand int he way of success if you learn from it.

You may not think you're going to make it. You may want to quit. But if you keep your eye on the ball, you can accomplish anything.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

What you do with your life and how you do it is not only a reflection on you, but on your family and all of those institutions that have helped to make you who you are.

Does Pete (Rose) hustle? Before the All-Star game he came into the clubhouse and took off his shoes and they ran another mile without him.

Politics is a mirror with an untamed tongue

I hadn’t even left my room and already my day had taken a U-turn straight to hell.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror.

We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

The memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment.

Being a sociologist means never having to be bored

The laws are with us, and God on our side.

I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.