If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.

I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

Fans don't boo nobodies.

Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.

Because I can only love you entirely. With everything I am, and everything I ever will be. Body, mind, heart, soul.” - Victor Bramwell, Earl of Rycliff.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.

Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut.

Our nation was horrified, but it's not going to be terrorized.

For me the question was, do I want my paycheck to be dependent on how other people think I look?

My favorite part is just being able to say and do things that you can't do in real life, and behaving in a way that's just not really acceptable, in the real world.

I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.