Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

The day you were born the angels whispered, "She is going to love him until the day she dies.

I like cats as much as the next person, in the right quantity.

Before, singing was my life, my vocal chords used to lead the way. Now, I'm in-charge.

My best friend recently told me that I was the most passionate person she's ever known. I don't know if that was a compliment or an insult, honestly.

I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today, we are all Americans. In grief, as in defiance.

What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering.

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.