I get to kind of pretend I'm going to play baseball. I get to work out and do all the stuff that was part of baseball. I just don't get to play.

I play to lift a city, and raise a banner.

When I was playing, my wife and kids would go on the road with me, and we would go to different lunch spots that we saw on "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives."

Just because you're big doesn't mean you can't be an athlete. And just because you work out doesn't mean you're going to have a 12-pack.

You don't need to have a perfect ending to be happy.

Obviously, I think this [162 games a year four times] caused my early retirement, but I couldn't do it any other way. Just for the record, I never asked for any of the days off in my career.

Coming up through high school, coaches would tell me not to swing so hard. It's the only way I know. It just happens.

If there's a man on second, I'm trying to get him in with a base hit. The doubles and homers will come. Sooner or later they'll go out naturally. I'm just trying not to do too much.

Miguel and Justin, the two biggest guys on the team, welcomed me right away and once the cool kids in school like you, it's easy to get along.

A lot of people probably say I'm stupid, and they're probably right, because there are people who take days off who are still in the league, and I'm not.

I have nothing left to prove. I've already done enough to my neck.

Photos sat on the piano and shelves bulged with books, testament to a life well lived.

We have at any rate one advantage over Time and Space. We think them whereas it is extremely doubtful whether they think us!

I have no interest in dying.But I have to. I have to care one day about things that don't matter to me.

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.

Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

I believe government should be loyal to parents, teachers and children.

The key to longevity: keep breathing.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends.