To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

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."

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

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.

A man will have success in the place where he diligently works

To hear a radical change of perspective is to hear a kingdom minded man speak

You refused to fall in love with anyone else, Dmitri.” A whisper with the impact of a gun-shot. “So I had to come back for you . . . husband.

I hate that when people are like, "Well, all dwarves know each other, right?" And you want to get mad, but you can't because we do.

There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.

My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.

It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.

A man is no true Christian if he has no devotion to the Mother of Jesus Christ.

Think of the computer as a spiritual space for thinking.

When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.