If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

Stay away from drugs and alcohol. Listen to your moms and dads. In this great country of ours you do whatever you set your mind to. Make us proud of you.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire.

I realize that even through the hard times I’m sure we’ll face, I’ll never be able to walk away from her. -Micha

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

When you're young, you can excuse many things, hoping they will strengthen with time.

There is nothing personal in the thunderclap of understanding. The lightning that releases it comes from outside oneself.

Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision.

The quality of a society depends on its capacity to produce eminent personalities.

An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call That bides the spheres become articulate.

As long as I keep enjoying my golf, then hopefully I'll be able to play well.

Don't drive as if you own the road; drive as if you own the car.