I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.

The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

The race doesn't always belong to the swift nor the battle to the strong. It belongs rather to those who run the race, who stay the course and who fight the good fight.

When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.

Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible.

And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.

I came to love Fenway. It was a place that rejuvenated me after a road trip; the fans right on top of you, the nutty angles. And the Wall. That was my baby, the left-field wall, the Green Monster.

You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.

Laugh every day for five minutes, without any reason, then repeat it for 21 days straight and it will become your habit to do.

In order to keep standing, one must first know how and why should they stand,

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

What did John Ashcroft say about moderates, he said, quote, there are two things you find in the middle of the road, a moderate and a dead skunk and I don't want to be either.

The only way I see an out is for you to take full responsibility.

George Jessel’s newest pick-me-up which is receiving attention from the town’s paragraphers is called a Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half vodka.

Fearful of sentimentality, I disown my tears and melting heart.

Israel is the second Silicon Valley, and it is therefore the only other place we have chosen to expand our activities.

I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.

I am then never less alone than when alone