There's only one way to break the color line. Be good. I mean, play good. Play so good that they can't remember what color you were before the season started.

Failure is a part of success.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Failure will never stand int he way of success if you learn from it.

You may not think you're going to make it. You may want to quit. But if you keep your eye on the ball, you can accomplish anything.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

What you do with your life and how you do it is not only a reflection on you, but on your family and all of those institutions that have helped to make you who you are.

Does Pete (Rose) hustle? Before the All-Star game he came into the clubhouse and took off his shoes and they ran another mile without him.

Excellence is not an event but a habit.

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

When people lack true culture or are devoid of innovative ideas, they speak about wine, various brands of alcoholic beverages, or the quality of soap.

The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.

Without your health, you've got nothing going on. I thank God every day for good health.

One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive.

Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.

There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.

Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.

It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves.