I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.

If you don't root for the Dodgers, you might not get into heaven.

Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad.

The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away.

If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.

You might pass by those who're stuck in the neck bottle while you are swiming in your whiskey, be kind !

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

Sometimes I'd like to have a conversation with a friend in a restaurant without feeling I'm being watched. At this rate I will have to go on holiday to Greenland. But maybe the Eskimos would know me.

I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.

In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.

In films, people sometimes forget and concentrate on the fight itself, which is great, but the 15 minutes that come beforehand are equally as breathtaking.

Film is a truly magical medium.