The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

I would give my life to fly in space. It's hard for me to talk about it but I would. I would then, and I will now.

We are all endowed with the wealth of time equally. Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, has this wealth.

Until we’re pushing up daisies, it might be good to remind ourselves daily that everything’s coming up roses — for me and for you.

Apology makes you self responsible while excuse makes you undependable

A wedding is a ceremony men fund with money they know they don’t have … to prove the love they think they have.

Ambition’ is ‘greed’ rebranded.

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

Today we've learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.