I think there are some players born to play ball.

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.

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

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.

You ruin is your rebellion against God.

I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—As if my Brain had split—I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—But could not make it fit.

They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.

Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Now what Clan you know with lines this ill? Bust shots at Big Ben, like we got time to kill.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

If free will exists, why do the tallest candidates with the best hair usually win elections ?