I don't know why Roger (Maris) isn't in the hall of fame. To me, he was as good as there ever was.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.

It is quite possible that China may reach the stages of socialism and communism considerably later than your countries in the West which are so much more highly developed economically.

There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.

Children are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest.

November, I'll give thanks that you belong to me. December, you're the present beneath my Christmas tree.

Things are not as they should be. Because He's not finished yet. They will be. Rest assured.

Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.

What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.

At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed.

I’m not anything that you think I am.