The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head.

One small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.

There is but one game and that game is baseball.

Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man.

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?

I think we can win it if my brain holds out.

Humans make mistakes. They get angry, they do stupid things they're not proud of, and they hurt the people they love the most.

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.

I always remember writing a page of jokes for a comedian and handing it to him backstage at a club and he read it and then took his cigarette lighter and lit the page on...

Today we no longer live in a way that is constrained by simple working or leisure environments - we travel, we work on laptops in coffee shops, we go out to dinner straight from work.

America is going to start happening outside of the parties.

The struggle for freedom and justice is now.

Fasting is the first principle of medicine.

Everything you do is challenging, hopefully, because if it's not, it's boring.

Barcelona is a special track. I have always loved the layout of the circuit, but also the atmosphere and the fans are special. It has always been good fun.