I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.

I was doing what I love to do: play baseball. Not going to complain about that.

Ballplayers, like everyone else, like to get told they did something right.

Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.

I could run like a gazelle, couldn't I?

I loved coming up with players in scoring position and I had to drive them in.

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

The zoo grounds reeked of desolation, but the silence had an undercurrent, a silvery vibe, like the hush of a concert hall just before the first note.

I honestly didn’t realize at the time that I was dealing with myself. But I suppose it’s true that I developed a therapy that provides the things I needed for so many years and never got.

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

It's fun! Just fun...I don't think of it as a cabaret act per se, I call it more of a gig, if that makes any sense

Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.

It takes more than a college degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated is one who has learned to get whatever he wants in life without violating the rights of others.

We want full-scale normalisation of relations [with Japan].