Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.

Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.

This world is the playing ground of our thoughts and imaginations which create our perceptions.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment in history or nothing happens.

I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.

I'm a really eclectic reader.

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

God has challenged me to grow in my knowledge of Him but I have to CHOOSE whether or not to display this growth through my actions.

Look in the rearview mirror long enough & you'll see that God has purposely positioned you everywhere you've been-even when it seemed you'd taken a wrong turn.

I think when you have a band that are so separate and isolated then you have to know each others styles and characters quite well.

I am very much a creature of habit, and I have no life consistency. None.

An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies.