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

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

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.

A Christian’s mindset should be a victorious mentality

Words are just words who they come from gives them relevance and this relevance gives them the power to hurt you. Make those who hurt you irrelevant.

I thank God every day for bringing you into my life. I know I don't deserve you, but I'm a better man because of you.

My sexuality is not a phase. I am who I am.

Science "knows" it doesn't know everything, otherwise it would stop.

Change is not progress.

Tibet is a beautiful and richly endowed region of our great motherland.

I was so ugly that my parents sent my picture to 'ripley's believe it or not' - they sent it back and said, "we don't believe it."

Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last weeks winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong.

I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.