The big trouble is not really who isn't in the Hall of Fame, but who is. It was established for a select few.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters.

A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence.

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

I've cheated, or someone on my team has cheated, in almost every single game I've been in.

Consistency in action is easy once you convert your daily disciplines and activities into habits.

Idea lady is the ideal lady!

If I had the choice to travel to two places in Europe, it would be Paris and London.

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.

Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.

I'm a little tired of people who have very big moral positions and very small power in reality.

If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist.

Flow wine, smile woman, and the universe is consoled.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.