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 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 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.

Open your heart to the true wonders that really exist in life.

I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.

Don't be afraid to question. Don't be afraid to get fired. Don't be afraid to be wrong.

[Our employees] do it not because we pay them more, but because they want to be part of something.

I do condition my hair with honey and beer. I smell like the bottom of a beer barrel for days afterwards, but it's very good for the hair.

Snow is the beginning and the end of everything.

Yes, there truly is a joy to giving.

My background sets me apart. I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child.

I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?

Your higher self is always nudging you toward a resolution of the conflicts that you experience in your life, so that you will have room for serenity and harmony.