I think I have signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.

Sometimes in this game its as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.

Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.

You can forget trying to climb the success ladder, all you will ever need in life is brought to you in the Cosmic Ordering elevator.

Black for hunting through the night For death and sorrow, the color’s white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown, And red to call enchantment down.

To be and to think are one and the same for us.

I smoke occasionally, but it's not a part of my routine. I mean, I don't need it.

While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .

I don't know what I am. And it's not important.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor

Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.

To exceed the expectations of others, we must first raise expectations of ourselves.

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.