Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.

When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

We were mighty short of infielders in those days

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

Prayer is not meant to be a burden or used as a badge of holiness. Instead, it is a gift of God that when used properly should yield great victory in our lives.

I wish clarity to mean everything that makes mind at ease, but hate covers that causes evil deeds.

She would have given up every Gathering from now until she went to join StarClan, if only she could have been sure that her sister was safe.

Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.

If I drop dead tomorrow, at least I’ll know I died in good health.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

Trying to prove something to someone is never a valid reason for doing anything.

I closed my eyes and rested my head against his chest, wishing sincerely that Rhiannon would get hit by a bus.

Death likes it when you play hard to get.