I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got.

Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready your lawyer lined up.

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

All good balls to hit are strikes, though not all strikes are good balls to hit.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

Anyone who feels to much or radiates extremity gets very lonely.

I wonder if a fish'sOne and only wish isThat other fish will never say, "This fish is sure delicious!

If I say I'll help you I'll help you. If I say I'll kill you I'll kill you. Everything else is ripples of maybe.

If you are losing power in your relationships, with others, then you have to try and remedy that, if you can't, you need to sever the relationship.

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

You cannot play for safety and make art.

The sun cares nothing for illumination.

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

I think people do have their own minds.