I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me, but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

I would give my life to fly in space. It's hard for me to talk about it but I would. I would then, and I will now.

We are not the stuff that abides, but patternsthat perpetuate themselves.

One of the strengths, and weaknesses, of liberal democratic societies is giving the benefit of the doubt even to one's enemies

If you think about what you ought to do for other people your character will take care of itself.

Human reasoning can never answer the mysteries of our lives.

I am neurotic, and I'm a worrier.

Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.

I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.

I said,'Instead of going in the direction that a lot of the women singers are going in [revealing], I'll be very, very sexy under 18 pounds of chiffon and lace and velvet...I will have mystique.

The light came into the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it, but that no longer mattered because the light was now obliteration the darkness.