I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.

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.

Children can be disgusting, and often they can develop extraordinary talents, but I’m yet to meet any child who can stimulate his carotid arteries inside his ribcage.

The principle of tolerance and respect for freedom promoted by the reforms of the Second Vatican Council are today being manipulated and erroneously taken too far.

These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.

Leadership is solving problems.

Kids come up to me all the time and say, 'Once I was going through a really bad time, and I saw you crash and get up, and it inspired me.'

Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.

The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and offered to speak for an hour on British television, they would say, "What! Another talking head?

I'm always gonna be an actor, so I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do next. I would love to make a documentary again someday, but I need to take a break from it.

I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.