If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.

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.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be insatiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

If you always live with those who are lame you will yourself learn to limp.

It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.

Try to be still inside. Learn to quiet and stop thought, and you will be able to develop your mind. Your psychic intuition will start to come about.

Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.

You can love other people only to the degree that you've come to love and accept yourself

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.