I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.

At my age, I'm just happy to be named the greatest living anything.

The reason I play so hard is that somewhere out there is some kid who has never seen me play before, and I don't want to disappoint him.

You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you're down.

If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn't want to let him down.

The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset?

Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

I live in Florida and people are crazy here. And I say that lovingly.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.

In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us. And we also are part of everything in the universe.

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.

I was not allowed to be an individual. I was black and I was a woman - and I was a black woman.