If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.

The emotions you feel over and over and over again provide the vibrational cellular landscape that creates or destroys your health.

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.

What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.

Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there. "Still in the showers," said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself.

Reading is more important to me than eating.

Love is perfect kindness.

Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.