I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

The race doesn't always belong to the swift nor the battle to the strong. It belongs rather to those who run the race, who stay the course and who fight the good fight.

When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.

Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible.

And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.

I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.

I came to love Fenway. It was a place that rejuvenated me after a road trip; the fans right on top of you, the nutty angles. And the Wall. That was my baby, the left-field wall, the Green Monster.

You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.

There’ll always be wars because men love wars. Women don’t, but men do..

The human condition is such that we can only stomach so much imagination. We need for things to be labeled either fiction or nonfiction. There is no section in between.

Oh God, if You want me to serve You, I will. I’ll be what You want me to be. I’ll go where You want me to go.

He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.

I'm not the settling-down type, I'm afraid. I think I'm cursed with a touch of Dating ADD.

Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions . . . Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.

I just think that we ought to protect the Social Security fund.

There is nothing god cannot do.