I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

We were mighty short of infielders in those days

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

To have understanding is not to be religious

We need to perceive ourselves as the special race.If not, beasts will perceive themselves as the chosen.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat.

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.

I am in love with Counting Crows. It is so manly and American.

Rap is not pop, if you call it that then stop...

If it's that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven, think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in . He doesn't even have a bribe for the gatekeeper.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.