Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

I would give my life to fly in space. It's hard for me to talk about it but I would. I would then, and I will now.

I have this feeling that life is a spiritual adventure, and I want to make mine in the sky.

Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.

God has sent us with treasure of thoughts, we just need to explore that

Live your life with a Burning Passion, with an Unquenchable Thirst for knowledge and wisdom.

We love our business. We have never been more enthusiastic about cable and its future.

It's my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.

Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel that it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country.

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.

I am exhausted by trying to get along with the Lord.

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.