I had just turned 20, and Jackie told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week.

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.

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

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.

For Honor and the Octagon!

For how long are you going to keep wasting your money, time, and energy trying to impress people who will never matter in your life?

She screamed. Her screaming was beautiful. But, truth be told he missed the crying.

You've got to have the guts not to be afraid to screw up.

Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

My favorite color is green.

Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they're convinced their idea is not going to work.

I'm a lifelong bachelor, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't marry the right woman.

I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes.