Most collisions out on the fields are needless.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

I would give my life to fly in space. It's hard for me to talk about it but I would. I would then, and I will now.

But there’s that thing with secrets, too, how they take over your head, feeding on your every thought, growing bigger all the time until the day comes they’re so heavy you can’t walk.

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.

My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God?

BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.

Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and these three are one.

Fame for me is like a place, a country I'm taking a tour through.

The angle of entry of the ball equals the angle of release. You cannot deny the laws of science.

Fear comes, but fear passes.

Prayer is the greatest use of my words.

If you're emotional and you're great at something, the money will follow.