I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.

When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth.

I was born to play baseball.

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this Earth.

I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.

Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.

A nation without heroes is nothing.

In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.

There's no difference between me and you. You need something, a glove, a place to live, you let me know.

To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.

Authority is not a power, it is a responsibility.

Heartache, to her, coursed through everything--which was as it should be, since people needed it to make them kind.pg. 4

I love making people uncomfortable, and when people say, 'I cringed watching [that] scene,' that's the biggest compliment you can give me.

Dating should be a part of your life, not your life a part of dating. There is more to life than finding a date.

You put three girls in a house, and all of a sudden before you know it, youre talking about boys and drinking whiskey, and things go down and you get deep real quick.

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

Even the president is watching the fight.

I was going with someone for a few years, but we broke up. It was one of those things. He wanted to get married, and I didn't want him to.

I didn't feel so great when I was a teenager, but who does?

Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.