Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

I've always been a slave to my heart.

To be successful, one must take chances.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

Helping someone is what life is all about.

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

Yet if he would man cannot live all to this world. If not religious he will be superstitious. If he worship not the true God he will have his idols.

I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.

The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.

Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive.

It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.

The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.