I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters.

A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence.

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

I've cheated, or someone on my team has cheated, in almost every single game I've been in.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, unless it is the burning bush, in that case the value of your bird just went up!!

You can raise your potential, when you help someone to reach their potential.

Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.

I've always had this thing where I've always seen my parents as people, from a very young age.

My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.

Prayer draws us near to our own souls.

I thought beforehand, if [Marie] Henein is going to be a shark, I'm going to be a jellyfish, because you can't catch a jellyfish. Not that I didn't want to be caught, I just wanted to present solid.

More and more, I feel the need for a house and a garden.

You know, I could have carried you.

We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.