The only way I can't hit .300 is if there's something physically wrong with me.

You'd be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle.

Jay Z got Cano a big raise, but he got him an extra 30-day vacation - and it's called October.

See the ball; hit the ball.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.

Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.

Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.

Every time I step up to the plate, I expect to get a hit. If I don't expect to get a hit, I have no right to step into the batter's box in the first place.

Whoever designed this city built it to complement the setting sun as perfectly as the stars complement the night.

A pebble thrown in a poolmay ripple from end to end, but tossed into the sea, it is swallowed by enormity.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.

Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.

A casino in South Dakota was robbed by a man dressed as a mummy. The police described the suspect as anywhere between 25 and 8,000 years old.

What is needed isn't merely tolerance but acceptance, wholehearted and unconditional.

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

Each mind has its own method.