I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life.

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

I've always been a slave to my heart.

To be successful, one must take chances.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

Helping someone is what life is all about.

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

The Universe, solitude, passion, and recognition won't ever let you hate your life. Try to be as close to them as possible.

We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

If you always live with those who are lame you will yourself learn to limp.

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

If youre a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of the world come out to see you. When youre on television, youre removed from that.

All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.

I'm still amazed by the process of recording.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

He who is chaste in flesh should not be proud, for he should know that he owes the gift of continence to another.