Making the majors is not as hard as staying there, staying interested day after day. It's like being married. The hardest part is to stay married.

Failure is a part of success.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Failure will never stand int he way of success if you learn from it.

You may not think you're going to make it. You may want to quit. But if you keep your eye on the ball, you can accomplish anything.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

What you do with your life and how you do it is not only a reflection on you, but on your family and all of those institutions that have helped to make you who you are.

Does Pete (Rose) hustle? Before the All-Star game he came into the clubhouse and took off his shoes and they ran another mile without him.

If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.

If you're optimistic, think of it as bronze.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Less is even less, and more is still not quite enough.

I'mma just do me, when it feel right.

The most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me was when I was wearing a hair extension and it fell out on set.

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

I don't hate being an actor. But if there's a choice, I prefer to direct.