If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.

I am saying that there is a time to do, and a time not to do, and that when we are slave to the habit of doing we are unable to distinguish between them.

On the battlefield there are no rules.

Be hard on yourself, easy on others.

I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

Or, in truth, eventually, though I still noticed, the callouses on my spirit prevented wounds (p.75).

I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer.

There wasn't enough chocolate in the world to make this better.

I like my life alone.

I am in the penitentiary. The only thing that I do is my time.

If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.