I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.

Failure is a part of success.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Failure will never stand int he way of success if you learn from it.

You may not think you're going to make it. You may want to quit. But if you keep your eye on the ball, you can accomplish anything.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

What you do with your life and how you do it is not only a reflection on you, but on your family and all of those institutions that have helped to make you who you are.

Does Pete (Rose) hustle? Before the All-Star game he came into the clubhouse and took off his shoes and they ran another mile without him.

All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.

Honor is the greatest poet.

Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.

It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question.

The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade

The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

Ah, love, - you are my unutterable blessing.....I am in full sunshine now.

It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air.

I believe that this whole question of some photography being true and some untrue is a non-question. Photography is not objective; it never was objective.

Sincerity is the most important thing in acting. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.