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

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.

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

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.

I didn't want to be different, even among the different.

Without the spirit of gratitude, no amount of blessings would activate the feeling of happiness in one's mind.

I don't fear the future. I fear letting it pass by me, without ever trying to make it mine.

If you look at Isis beheading women and children, if you are like me, you are not thinking, one of these would make a great missionary.

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.

I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs

To feel free, hide nothing!

I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.

Nay, droop not, fellows; innocence should be bold.

My comedy notebooks are filled with random journal entries. It's all the same. I can look back on old joke notebooks, and know exactly what was going on in my life.