I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

I would give my life to fly in space. It's hard for me to talk about it but I would. I would then, and I will now.

I have this feeling that life is a spiritual adventure, and I want to make mine in the sky.

An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture.

Laughter is therapy-an instant vacation.

I come in peace...Take me to your lizard.

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.

I am stopping so I can be a full time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.

Loyalty saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do.