One rule I had was make your best pitch and back up third base. That relay might get away and you've got another shot at him.

I'd rather be lucky than good

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

I was never nervous when I had the ball, but when I let go I was scared to death.

Hell, Lou (Gehrig) it took fifteen years to get you out of a game. Sometimes I'm out in fifteen minutes.

I talked to the ball a lot of times in my career. I yelled, "Go foul. Go foul."

The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield.

I'm something like the old soak who never knew whether his wife told him to take one drink and come home at 12, or take 12 and come home at one.

You just can't imagine the kind of guy he was without seeing him play. He was a circus, a play, a movie, all rolled into one.

I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

I'd rather not throw the ball at all.

We live beneath many layers. Some are for our protection, and some are for our control.

Catching a fly ball is a pleasure but knowing what to do with it is a business.

The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.

I've never been so on trend in my entire life.

I've never been good at being nostalgic, and I've never been able to focus on sound without having a voice that's very here-and-now.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.

God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.

Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

We knew our strengths and played up our assets. But we couldn't see what made us unique enough for someone to really love us.