I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

Failure is a part of success.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Failure will never stand int he way of success if you learn from it.

You may not think you're going to make it. You may want to quit. But if you keep your eye on the ball, you can accomplish anything.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

What you do with your life and how you do it is not only a reflection on you, but on your family and all of those institutions that have helped to make you who you are.

Does Pete (Rose) hustle? Before the All-Star game he came into the clubhouse and took off his shoes and they ran another mile without him.

I don't want people to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron.

Ronan's second secret was Adam Parrish.

I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.

In Tokyo, London or Los Angeles people go into McDonald's and the restaurants are identical and people are comfortable. It's unthreatening.

I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.

In fully accepting your creative power, you honor and respect your soul and remind others to do the same.