Get eight hours of sleep regularly. Keep your weight down, run a mile a day.

Unless you give it all you've got, there isn't any sense in playing.

I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.

Back in my day, we didn't think about money as much. We enjoyed playing the game. We loved baseball. I didn't think about anybody else but the Cardinals.

I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.

The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.

Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.

The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field.

Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.

There was never a day when I was as good as Joe DiMaggio at his best. Joe was the best, the very best I ever saw.

The one unbreakable rule about hitting is this: if a batter hits well with his own particular stance and swing, think twice - or more - before suggesting a change.

Falsehood is never in words

We are wasting our youth holding cold devices while we should be holding one another’s warm hands.

Look for the failures in your successes and the successes in your failures.

Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry; I was not so sure about the reason part.

Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great.

The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more.

I can't relate to livin' less than great.

Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.

He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.

I am a big barbecue-sauce guy.