I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

I would give my life to fly in space. It's hard for me to talk about it but I would. I would then, and I will now.

Your body would not get sick if you held no thought of resentment. It is neither good nor bad of itself. If we hold anything against anyone, we will suffer ourselves.

May your life be a fountain of love and kindness to fill the world with joy.

I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.

Not often do you approach a character where people know more about him than you do.

No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed

I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus.

The Universe provides abundantly when you're in a state of gratefulness.