I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.

I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.

Cooperstown is the greatest place on Earth.

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

Pain fuels artistry and creativity. Harness your suffering and become a master of your art.

There is no jealous man, without a flirtatious woman.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with certainty -- it's the believers who know it all.

What's bad about my biography? My father was a worker, my brothers, too, and I have always honestly served my country.

The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.

I always push myself, even when I did a film where it was pretty much me the whole film.

History is an accumulation of error.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.