People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters.

A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence.

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

I've cheated, or someone on my team has cheated, in almost every single game I've been in.

When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

The sun might be God. God might not watch us at night.

Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

The best thing we can bring to any fight is a calm and compassionate mind.

I use different kinds of materials on different kinds of projects. Today we can do things with steel and glass that we could not do before. flexible enough to change.

If you took any of my radio shows and you took the music out of them, they wouldn't be remotely the same thing. Music is really important.

Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'.

But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.

The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.