I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

We were mighty short of infielders in those days

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.

Regardless of how funny I want to be, I don't ever have a problem speaking from my heart or speaking honestly to people.

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want.

I hope people will think very carefully about the future.

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.