October: that's when they pay off for playing ball.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.

I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

Fans don't boo nobodies.

If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.

I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.

If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.

Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.

Practice until it becomes boring, then practice until it becomes beautiful.

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

What a rude Lump our World is that we are so apt to dote upon.