They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

I've always been a slave to my heart.

To be successful, one must take chances.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

Helping someone is what life is all about.

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

Life is a balance between giving and receiving. The more you give, the more abundance will fill your life with joy.

You do not attain success when you associate with those in high positions, It comes when you accept yourself and realize that only you can take yourself to where your heart truly lies.

The next time an unbeliever tells you they would believe in God "if He would just do a miracle, " you will know that is not true. Miracles do not convert people, God converts people.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

I want everybody to think alike. I think everybody should be a machine.

The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.

Never believe a man's claim that he has to harm his partner in order to protect her; only abusers think this way.

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go.