It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.

As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.

You hit home runs not by chance, but by preparation.

Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.

I don't know if I want to go to New York. They'll have to pay me a lot more money because I like it here in Kansas City.

I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.

Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.

It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had never hit those 61 homeruns... all it brought me was headaches.

I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on.

I feel that I was a good all-around player, I had good speed, a good arm and could play the outfield.

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude.

As long as there is Fear, Faith is not to be found.Believe the finished work of Christ. Rise Up to Faith!

Don't point to the darkness, but to the stars.

Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time, on very slight and sparing food.

I remember from when I use to be a dancer, there is an expression among dancers, I had a T-shirt that said: SHUT UP AND DANCE.

You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

When I shot the movie, I wasn't gonna think about anything except for being the biggest knucklehead in the world.

All of us make assumptions about what somebody's potential is, because we all think of why somebody can or can't do something. We make terrible assumptions.

To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing: it is the purity and beauty of a failure.