I could run like a gazelle, couldn't I?

I was doing what I love to do: play baseball. Not going to complain about that.

Ballplayers, like everyone else, like to get told they did something right.

Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.

I loved coming up with players in scoring position and I had to drive them in.

I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

Shakespeare said, 'the robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Adventure is just about doing something you’ve never done— doing it with enthusiasm and curiosity: doing something difficult with passion.

Occasionally, I'll be on the Internet and see something about me and give in to the urge to click on it. It's hard not to. Usually, I wish I didn't.

All life is dying life – including the life of God.

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

Knowledge is speaking, wisdom is listening

Continue to plant a kiss of concern on the cheek of the sick and the aged and infirm and count that actions as natural and to be expected.

Love’s secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers, “Here I am!”

When people get tired they will say, "Enough is enough. If you want to kill us all, you can kill us all."