Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

I would give my life to fly in space. It's hard for me to talk about it but I would. I would then, and I will now.

I have this feeling that life is a spiritual adventure, and I want to make mine in the sky.

Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems.

An honest cop still can't find a place to go and complain without fear of recrimination. The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.

No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me

Now, more than ever, the choice between Obama and Romney will be which one do you want to ruin your country?

Hollywood isn't a place, it's a way of life.

I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.

The boy who walks in the light.

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.

What happens, matters. Maybe only to us but it matters.

I love goofing around, and I love breaking people's balls. I do it off camera, as well as on camera.