Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive

We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

One of the trademarks of a champion is that he can outlast you.

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect

I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to.

Jo dimaag ki dahi banaaye, uski lassi kardo, aur chill maro. (If someone makes curd of your brain then churn them to buttermilk and chill).

If somebody is deemed more talented within the confines of the school it doesn't mean they're going to have the most successful career.

Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.

If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.

Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events?

If you can't get an intro to a VC, hang up your cleats now. You're done, GAME OVER

See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.

It's nice to be able to engage with this fan base that I've worked to build, brick by brick.

If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.