I didn't come to New York to be a star. I brought my star with me.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.

I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

Fans don't boo nobodies.

If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

Current / is the cure for both a stopped heart / and one that beats too much. / And if it must be shocked twice, / the surgeons call it a reluctant heart.

Good People bring out the good in other people.

Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict.

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed...

I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.

Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.

Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!