We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

I may not drive in 100 runs a year, but I can prevent 100 runs from scoring against us.

When I'm in my groove there is no thinking. Everything just happens.

I don't think anybody ever really just retires where they don't do anything.

I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.

My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.

We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.

As I was in the air, the ball took a bad hop and caromed behind me, but I was able to catch it with my bare hand. I hit the ground, bounced back up, and threw Burroughs out at first.

No one paid attention to my offense. So having 2,000 hits is one of the things that is an accomplishment.

The smell of the ocean, southern breeze, blue sky, and the gentle sound of dancing waves make me sing the song of love.

It is common to seek perfection, but it is stupid to believe that you will ever reach it.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them.

Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.

...once you fell in love with her, you loved her until the day you died.

I think half of what a trainer does is make you feel shame if you dont show up.