I never saw him fight. I never saw Billy fight.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

Friendship's enemy is betrayal.

.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them

Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne.

Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.

I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.

Even marginal progress could be affected by investigations in Little Rock and in Washington.

(Dwight Gooden) his fastball crackling , his curveball dropping as suddenly as a duck shot in the air, has begun his charge for a third straight award-winning season.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

People say law but they mean wealth.