I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.

When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth.

I was born to play baseball.

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this Earth.

I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.

Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.

A nation without heroes is nothing.

In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.

I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.

There's no difference between me and you. You need something, a glove, a place to live, you let me know.

An oak tree is just a small nut that persevered against the taunts of doubt and fear.

To remember a man’s name is to give him eternal life

An hour is indeed a long time when you count every second

Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion!

When I really need it, talking is the best way to deal with emotional pain.

Most of your happiness will come from your relationships with others. Handle them with care.

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

I'd rather be sorry for something I had done than for something I didn't do.

I love going on tour and playing music for people.

I was perfect- not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place