Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.

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 art is not one of forgetting but letting go

A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement

It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.

When you're in your lane, there's no traffic.

Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.

I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of potential

I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.

I don't know if humor has a place for it but being light hearted does and not to take it too seriously.

All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.

I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.