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

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.

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.

Stay away from drugs and alcohol. Listen to your moms and dads. In this great country of ours you do whatever you set your mind to. Make us proud of you.

Work, Mrs. Hill knew, might not be a cure for all ailments, but it was a sovereign remedy against the more brooding kinds.

The ethos of not fooling yourself is one of the best you could possibly have. It's powerful because it's so rare.

Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.

It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music.

We're looking at catastrophic impacts in our lifetime, not only that every month now we're setting a new World Almanac record.

You always have to sign contracts for several years, if they want to pick you up. It's kind of a strange scenario. They have the option or not.

Saddam was tranquillised when captured ... He would be a lion even when caged. Every honest person who knows Saddam knows that he is firm and powerful.

I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.

You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.

I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy guy.