Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.

The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.

If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.

It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.

Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

When I was a rookie, Cy Young used to hit me flies to sharpen my abilities to judge in advance the direction and distance of an outfield-hit ball.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

The people who love you will guide you like bright lights into the other worlds.

Don't look back!" "Why not?" "Because I just did! Run faster!

But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common...

...he spent whole days and nights over his books

I'm still the same. That's why the fans love me. Because they need stability in the industry.

Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!

The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.

The Federal Reserve... is in the position of the chaperone who has ordered the punch bowl removed just when the party was really warming up.

There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.