I never realized that batting a little ball around could cause so much commotion. I now know how (Charles) Lindbergh must have felt when he returned from St. Louis.

Unless you give it all you've got, there isn't any sense in playing.

I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.

Back in my day, we didn't think about money as much. We enjoyed playing the game. We loved baseball. I didn't think about anybody else but the Cardinals.

I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.

The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.

Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.

The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field.

Get eight hours of sleep regularly. Keep your weight down, run a mile a day.

Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.

There was never a day when I was as good as Joe DiMaggio at his best. Joe was the best, the very best I ever saw.

Not knowing the name of the tree, I stood in the floodof its sweet scent.

I fear it is my lot, to bide my days in hunchbacked thought, to find what I forgot.

[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in.

You can always judge a man by what he eats, and therefore a country in which there is no free lunch is no longer a free country.

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

Matter of internal security - the age-old cry of the oppressor. Picard

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life.