There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.

I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

We were mighty short of infielders in those days

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

The doubter doesn't sure which one is right, but it tends to demean other people's beliefs.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.

It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same amount of money on defense, in real terms, every single year.

I'm lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older.

I appeal: Learn with me the lessons of history and of grace, so my children will not be afraid to say the word 'AIDS' when I am gone. Then, their children and yours may not need to whisper it at all.

I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.

Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.

In a world full of monochromatic tadpoles, if you are fluorescent it does not matter what size of tadpole you are.

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.