If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.

There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.

At my age, I'm just happy to be named the greatest living anything.

The reason I play so hard is that somewhere out there is some kid who has never seen me play before, and I don't want to disappoint him.

You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you're down.

The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn't want to let him down.

What about an amnesiac, who awakes having lost his memories and must learn of his past from scratch? Has he died? How can we be just memories? How does that leave us with enough?

It's amazing what happens when you stick yourself in a place and let things take their more or less natural course.

Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.

I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.

During the writer's strike I was walking a line and ran into Jack Black and he said,'We're doing Airborne 2!', and I asked, 'Are you kidding?', and he said, 'Yeah.' I like 'Airborne,' its very pure.

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.