If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.

Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.

It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

Take time to thank everyone who has helped you along the way.

On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy.

I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.

[Mujahedeen], by the way, don't represent Islam in any formal sense. They're not imams or sheiks. They are self-appointed warriors for Islam.

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

I think the Negro people should feel secure enough by now to face a reasonable ridicule without terror. I am unalterably opposed to all efforts to put down free speech, whatever the excuse.

Unlike celibacy, which people choose, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are.

It matters only that you manifest your genius; it doesn’t matter when. It’s never too late or too early.

Don't spread patriotism too thin.

Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down