Unless you give it all you've got, there isn't any sense in playing.

I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.

Back in my day, we didn't think about money as much. We enjoyed playing the game. We loved baseball. I didn't think about anybody else but the Cardinals.

I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.

The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.

Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.

The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field.

Get eight hours of sleep regularly. Keep your weight down, run a mile a day.

Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.

There was never a day when I was as good as Joe DiMaggio at his best. Joe was the best, the very best I ever saw.

The one unbreakable rule about hitting is this: if a batter hits well with his own particular stance and swing, think twice - or more - before suggesting a change.

Seattle is for people who love culture, but refuse to sacrifice their wild nature to attain it.

I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

Fornication deprives a person of his spiritual covering.

Spend 70% of your spare time doing things close to home and the other 30% doing work at the global and national level.

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.

Bodies always understand each other, even when the souls do not.

Frugality is misery in disguise.

Who doesn’t have a polo shirt? Only somebody from, like, Lake Minnetonka.