I just grew the hair on my back. Facial hair just wasn't appealing to me. I liked it on my back, though.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

People don't know this, but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came down with hepatitis. The trainer injected me with it!

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.

They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn't allow visitors in the clubhouse.

Between me and my roommate, we've hit 400 Major League home runs.

The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper deck. When he got up and walked away, the crowd booed.

I led the league in go get 'em next time.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.

When I played baseball I got death threats all the time--from my mother.

A simple life freely given in love can transcend the boundaries of place and time, stretching across oceans and extending beyond continents and decades.

Never seek permission to be yourself. Revel in your own beauty.

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

All I can say is the most important part of being in a relationships that you love the person for who they are.

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent.

Don't criticize in the sack. Discuss constructively later.