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

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

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.

Failure isn't bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

I am Abhorsen..." He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Father of Sabriel

If you don't believe your general, you're not going to go into battle knowing you're going to die.

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

Sometimes I don't want to talk about it. Not to anyone. No one. No one at all. I just want to think about it on my own. Because it is mine. And no one else's.

Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.

To the man of faith, there is not a thing that is not opportunity.