They should have come out of the dugout on tippy-toes, holding hands and singing.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

Success is a decision, not a gift.

That is morality, I make myself imagine that it is personal.

If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

I'm just a loud Irish guy.

Perfume is the indispensable complement to the personality of women, the finishing touch on a dress.

I have a problem with the new cooks: you all are more cultured, you cook better....but you're lazier.

We're looking for stuff everyone agrees is a complete waste of time. Many agencies have forgotten how to deregulate. It's been so long since somebody asked them to look backwards.

If shaytan has entered into your heart - evil will look beautiful to you and good will seem tiring and exhausting.

Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter.

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.