I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

I've always been a slave to my heart.

To be successful, one must take chances.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

Helping someone is what life is all about.

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

Proving one’s innocence is as improbable as going to Pluto fora honeymoon. It could take away everything you had in life, dearones, dreams, hopes and, most importantly, the right to have yourfreedom.

What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

I need a woman to have a quirky sense of humor. There's a bunch of jokes I use, and if she doesn't get them, she's probably not for me.

I think we need a life-loving Palestine living by a Jewish democratic Israel.

Love does not come to those who seek it, but to those who give love. It is a binding force between souls who have nothing to give but themselves to one another.

In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.

I just want something that is real and that moves people. And just want to make something real.

If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.

You know when things are bad when you feel guilty for being rude to vampires. Jacob B. Ch.14