Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).

When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth.

I was born to play baseball.

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this Earth.

I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.

Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.

A nation without heroes is nothing.

In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.

I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.

There's no difference between me and you. You need something, a glove, a place to live, you let me know.

But I know something else, too: bad people are rare. Good people are everywhere.

The greatest sin is doubting God’s truth

Also, I'm angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously considered.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

You're not free, unless you come to the place where you have nothing to prove.

When you love someone very much, you'd have to go through every tear, every heartache, every pain. Cause in the end, it's not how much you suffered but how you loved.

Above all, train hard, eat light, and avoid TV and people with negative attitudes.

On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'