If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket.

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.

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

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.

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

If animal history has been a history of evolution, then the history of mankind is one of retrogression. Hooray for monsters! Monsters are the great embodiments of the weak.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

I bet you a handful of Chili's coupons that Jesus had a foot fetish.

The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.

Take your patience pill ...You can be joyous, but you can't be a jackass.

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

Brains can argue, but it takes heart to comfort.

In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.