If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

I've always been a slave to my heart.

To be successful, one must take chances.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

Helping someone is what life is all about.

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

No doubt the foregoing litany of obstacles in the path of success stands out more sharply in retrospect than it did at the time. Hindsight can distort

Being reliable is something. Being good.

I have never encountered a winner that held hate towards something.

Growing up, I felt insecure about my build. I didn't feel very feminine. But as time went on, I learned to completely embrace my body.

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.

I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up.

Then your heart is a black, shriveled thing, because you absoluteky betray me.

If you say to yourself 'It's difficult to get up in the morning', 'It's hard to cease smoking', then you are already using hypnotic suggestions on yourself

When you see a good move, sit on your hands and see if you can find a better one.