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

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.

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

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?

There is no honor in cruelty.

Any time I get to spend with you alone, away from school and the pressures of classes and stuff I’ve gotta do, is you spoiling me. Seriously, Mikey. All I need is you.

It's so natural you just fall into it and you find your way. It's terrifying and exciting, and brilliant.

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.

Even on the darkest night, my friend, life will have its way.

Ending illegal immigration only strengthens legal immigration.

My experience in Gujarat shows that howsoever big a problem might be, it is not insurmountable if we have the will to act.

So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.

I am not a spiritual guy, but all of a sudden I felt the need to really feel things.