I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.

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.

Unleash you masterpiece genius and let your authentic self be free.

This was the first time I noticed it, the inevitable space between father and man.

"Safety first" has been the motto of the human race for half a million years but it has never been the motto of leaders.

The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives. [The war is not done so long as my enemy lives.]

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.

Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked.

It's a weird thing to say, but it would appear to me axiomatic that if you understood fully what I was doing and appreciated it, you would like it.

Even true believers had consciences, Too bad.