I've got to be first. ALL the time.

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.

Love is hope and expectation. If many want to pencil it in, some don’t dare to ink it in, because love also means mystery and enigma. ( " Love as dizzy as a cathedral")

You can speak with spiritual eloquence, pray in public, and maintain a holy appearance... but it is your behavior that will reveal your true character.

Success only breeds a new goal

Some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.

So you say you love the poor? Name them.

You can write better about a place you've seen for yourself. You don't have to have been there - I've sure written about places I've never seen - but it does help.

I generally wake up, exercise and read through a huge amount of newspapers. I get to the office somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00 - my brothers and I are always the first ones in.

Accuracy builds credibility.

Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.