The absolute worst thing a person can say about your pictures is, '"That's nice." It's the kiss of death.

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

I played my best everyday. You never know when someone may be seeing you play for the first time.

There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.

At my age, I'm just happy to be named the greatest living anything.

The reason I play so hard is that somewhere out there is some kid who has never seen me play before, and I don't want to disappoint him.

You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you're down.

If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

The problem with the prosperity gospel is that it makes prosperity the Gospel. God's word is flawless, however if your interpretation of the word is wrong, your application will be wrong also.

Achievement seems to be connectedwith action. Successful men andwomen keep moving. They makemistakes, but they don't quit.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.

My sister wanted a cat for a pet... I wanted a dog, so they bought a cat and taught it to bark.

I feel like 'CSI: Miami' was just a license to do all sorts of horrible things that I'd always wanted to do.

A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.

Cocaine was different. It kept saying, "You haven't had enough." I became an abuser almost instantly.