It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?

Sure I eat what I advertise. Sure I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can't be beat.

If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time.

Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss?

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Let the teachers learn the kids English. Ol' Diz will learn the kids baseball.

Me and Paul (Dean) will probably win forty games (they won forty-nine).

The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.

I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?

I only went to the third grade because my father only went to the fourth and I didn't want to pass him.

Dangerous dreams are daydreaming.

We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

There's a huge emotional component to weight loss.

All experience is now. Now never ends.

Quiet is the element of discerning what is essential.

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

Heads I win, tails I don’t lose much.

Wanna know what heaven is ? Feeling the sun shine on you... In Paris