Helping someone is what life is all about.

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

I've always been a slave to my heart.

To be successful, one must take chances.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

Establish a system you have confidence in and rely on it when you get into tough situations.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

I don't have very eclectic tastes in music.

I remember too, a distant bell...and stars that fell...like the rainout of the blue.

Just to clear the record ive never turn down a mma fight against anyone and never will.

I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged.

Just about anybody is a big girl in a small world but you gotta believe it on the inside, that you can be bigger than the rest of it.

And see she flies, and she is everywhere.

For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.

Sweet flowers alone can say what passion fears revealing.