The Babe is one fellow, and I'm another and I could never be exactly like him. I don't try, I just go on as I am in my own right.

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

We were mighty short of infielders in those days

Truth is first felt in the heart before the mind. Those who try looking for truth through the mind before the heart will never find Truth.

If have the gift of prophesy, all wisdom and knowledge and have no love, I have failed to manifest my true soul.

Morality is all right, but what about dividends?

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

When you have a president-elect who calls the press every name in the book, I think it's a warning shot across the bow, and you go back to what you learn when you were a child.

An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.

Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.

To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.

My definition of patriotism is to defend your country with the truth, no matter the consequences.

Scottish bagpipe has two tenors and one bass - three drone pipes - and then the one chanter. If you put bagpipes together, it creates such a fine sound.