It's a pretty big shadow. It gives me lots of room to spread myself.

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

We were mighty short of infielders in those days

Faith gives Courage to the heart and Energy to the mind to make the Impossible Possible.

Agent Smith, a lady is never late, everyone is simply early.” I said back, paraphrasing something I saw on a 20/20 special. “Well, a lady isn’t exactly what they are expecting.

Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

Don't worry, chief. We've got these Tualaghi surrounded - from the inside." "Exactly," Erak replied dryly.

You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.

Think in terms of what's good for the other person and success will seek you out.

You can choose to acknowledge that there is something you don not understand about God and about Life, the understanding of which will change everything.

If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.

I take pride in my life-my wife, my family. I try my best not to have football define the person that I am.