Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.

This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.

My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?

Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

God leaves to our conscience the choice of the road we decide to follow, and the liberty of yielding to one or another of the opposing influences that act upon us.

One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career.

We, as a society, can't tolerate very much difference.

Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers.

I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.

In my own deepening understanding of myself I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well. The better I am at self-care the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.

The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.