I was doing what I love to do: play baseball. Not going to complain about that.

Ballplayers, like everyone else, like to get told they did something right.

Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.

I could run like a gazelle, couldn't I?

I loved coming up with players in scoring position and I had to drive them in.

I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

He wasn’t looking for a soulmate. That would require having a soul to share, and he’d sold his off long ago

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

I just like sitting at home, chilling and watching a movie.

Alas! never had I loved him so well!

I miss L.A. because of the weather. It can change so much in Calgary. You can get a storm one minute, and then the sun will come out and it will be hot.

I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sku was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.

They say the one thing that people who live the longest have in common is that they have a religious belief.

There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone.

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.