I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

Failure is a part of success.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Failure will never stand int he way of success if you learn from it.

You may not think you're going to make it. You may want to quit. But if you keep your eye on the ball, you can accomplish anything.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

What you do with your life and how you do it is not only a reflection on you, but on your family and all of those institutions that have helped to make you who you are.

Does Pete (Rose) hustle? Before the All-Star game he came into the clubhouse and took off his shoes and they ran another mile without him.

Believe in yourself and have faith in your abilities.

Man is his own worst enemy.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.

You need to feel good about your life. Winning is a great idea, but you can get stuck in it too. It's just another way of looking at life, an idea. You need to renew yourself and your spirit.

The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America.

To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient.

I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.

Isn't it my right to talk and say what I want to?

Government is not show business.